The Ministry of Health (MOH) has defended the suspension of the Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, stating that the decision is intended to allow an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the closure of the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit.

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has called for the immediate reinstatement of the Chief Executive Officer of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, describing the directive for his suspension as unjustified and without basis. The Association’s National Executive Council (NEC) decided following an emergency meeting held on Saturday, June 6, to consider a June 5 directive issued by the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, instructing the KATH Board to suspend the hospital’s CEO.

Nurses and midwives at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have threatened to join the ongoing industrial action by doctors from Sunday, June 7, if the suspension of the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr Paa Kwesi Baidoo, is not reversed. In a notice addressed to the Chairman of the KATH Board, the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA), KATH branch, declared its support for the Komfo Anokye Doctors Association (KADA), describing the decision to suspend the CEO as unnecessary and incapable of resolving the hospital’s longstanding challenges.