KATH partners Ghana Post to assist patients receive drugs via delivery service

KATH partners Ghana Post to assist patients receive drugs via delivery service

Patients of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) are soon to receive their drugs on delivery services, Chief Executive Officer Prof. Dr Otchere Addai-Mensah has said.
This comes after the CEO said the hospital in an agreement with the Ghana Post resortted their service to render a delivery system for their patients.

“We have entered into agreement with Ghana post. The people (patients) are just to indicate that they want that kind of service and the drugs will be served to them in the comfort of their homes”, Prof Addai – Mensah has said.

“After a management meeting, first point of call to find solution to this was Ghana Post for obvious reason”, he noted.
According to Prof Otchere Addai – Mensah, the move will help eliminate the stress some patients goo through in their quest to receiving health care service at the hospital.
Speaking to Angel FM Kumasi in an interview, Prof. Otchere Addai – Mensah explained that, there are some patients who are on mediation for some chronic illnesses, hypertension, diabetes among others.
“Sometime if it is a six month prescription period, we may give the person let say two months interval till he or she finishes. But we see about 1000 everyday so if it is possible for that person to stay home and pay a fee so that anytime we have to give him medication, the courier will do that”, he said.
According to him, the new service will save time and the trouble of these patients having to come all the way from their homes to Komfo Anokye and having to join n long queues at the hospital.
He also revealed that, when a lot of patients converge at the hospital for health care, doctors do not get enough time to look after those with acute illnesses, “there have been delay in attending to them”.

Meanwhile, Prof. Addai Mensah has also revealed that, the Hospital has already introduced payment of medical bills via mobile money transactions.

Source:updatesghana.com

(Managing editor,Justice Baffour Awuah)

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