Awuni Akyeraba, an Accounts Officer at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director for allegedly squandering COVID-19 funds.
The petitioner claims that the CEO and Medical Director spent money allocated to combat COVID-19 on expensive cars.
He claims that the hospital is now in desperate need of critical medical equipment, but management has opted to spend the cash for personal benefit.
“I want CHRAJ to investigate them for the management to account for the COVID-19 funds, and determine whether the funds were misused. What makes the purchase of the vehicle bite to the quick is that the Medical Director has given his vehicle to the wife, and the wife was involved in an accident with it. That is an abuse of public office, that is my issue”, Awuni Akyeraba lamented.
The hospital, which was in the forefront of the battle against COVID-19, received monetary contributions and other vital medical supplies from charitable people and organizations, but the petitioner says that funds were mismanaged, and he wants senior management of the hospital probed.
“I am very prepared to meet them with facts and evidence. I will be very grateful if a hearing is convened as soon as possible so that we bring this to a finality. The public didn’t come to help us with money so that we go and buy cars, but to use those monies to enhance healthcare delivery.”
“I am disconsolately heartbroken, standing there and watching these things happen. I think people need to be called to order for something better to be done”, the petitioner added.
Meanwhile, the facility’s administration has not publicly reacted to the petition, but a statement obtained from the hospital’s attorneys earlier this year that downplayed the charges.
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