CEO: Let's manage K'Bu like a private entity

The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital should be operated as a private medical facility, the CEO of the hospital, Dr Gilbert Buckle, has proposed.

The CEO has suggested that most of the challenges of the hospital could be addressed if a system could be implemented like that of private health facilities without a profit-making component.

“Korle-Bu needs to be run like a private institution under a public focus. If Korle-Bu…were privatised, it is not privatised to make profit, but with a social focus,” he said on the Executive Breakfast Show on Class91.3fm, Monday 15 February, 2016.

According to him, such a system will ensure “efficiency and effectiveness”, adding that “it should be looked at for the future”.

Meanwhile, Korle-Bu’s Senior Staff Association and nurses have accused the leadership of the hospital of mismanagement, a situation they said made it difficult for them to deliver quality healthcare to the public.

The President of the Senior Staff Association, Charles Offei Palm, indicated in December 2015 that almost 90 per cent of the group’s members wanted an overhaul of the leadership of the country’s premier hospital.