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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>The Minority in Parliament has told the Ministry of Health, and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to conduct power audits in all health facilities across the country to ascertain whether or not they will have electricity to function at all times even if the national grid goes off.<\/b><\/p>\n

The opposition lawmakers also demand that all health facilities in the country be taken out of the current load shedding taking place.<\/p>\n

Juaboso Member of Parliament and ranking member on the health committee of Parliament Kwabena Mintah Akandoh indicated that power cuts in the health facilities are likely to cause avoidable deaths hence their call for these facilities to be exempted.<\/p>\n

He was speaking in relation to the situation where a nursing mother lost her three-day-old baby at the Tema General Hospital on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, allegedly due to a power outage at the facility.<\/p>\n

Rashida Abubakar Tetteh, the 24-year-old troubled mother has disclosed that she was on admission at the Post C-S ward of the hospital when she was told by a doctor that the son couldn\u2019t survive due to the non-functional medical equipment during the power outage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to visit my son, but I didn\u2019t see him. I was waiting outside when one doctor came to inform me that they were sorry, but due to the lights out, my child could not survive because the incubator was not working.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s painful, they have killed my child because of dumsor; I am in pain. We have nothing to say to the hospital. A hospital like Tema General said they didn\u2019t have petrol in the generator. Is this how we are going to act in this country,\u201d she cried.<\/p>\n

The Tema General Hospital however denied reports suggesting that the Tuesday outages caused the fatalities at the facility.<\/p>\n

In a press release issued on Wednesday, March 27, the hospital dismissed these claims as baseless and urged the public to disregard them. \u201cIt is worth noting that no lives were lost as a result of this power outage,\u201d an excerpt of the statement said.<\/p>\n

The statement emphasised the hospital\u2019s unwavering commitment to prioritizing the health and safety of its patients above all else.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tema General Hospital assures the general public that the Facility will continue to put the health and safety of its patients at the core of its business,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n

Speaking on this matter on Thursday, March 28, Mintah Akandoh said \u201cIt will be very difficult for them to admit that it is due to the power cuts that caused the death of the baby, unless there is a probe into the matter you will not be able to establish the cause of the death of the baby. But that notwithstanding, it is a fact that every health facility needs electricity to be able to function well, it is also a fact that power cuts can lead to the death of patients so even if at that particular time it was not the power cuts that caused the death of the baby it is possible that power outages in other health facilities can cause deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo as a matter of urgency, we the Minorty side on the health committee and the minority as a whole, demand that all our health facilities must be exempted from this load-shedding going on, and then the Ministry together with the GHS must begin immediately power audits in the various health facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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