Indebted patients to be detained at hospital

Breman Asikuma (C/R), Sept. 18, GNA - Management of the Breman Asikuma Catholic Hospital has said in-patients who fail to pay their bills and have not registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme would be detained in the hospital kitchen.

Mr Tachie Ansah, the hospital Secretary, told the GNA that even though the Health Insurance Scheme had been instituted to assist the poor and the needy for affordable treatment, people are not taking advantage of it.

Mr Ansah said one Abena Safoaah 25, seamstress, delivered at the hospital in July and is indebted to the hospital to the tune of over 2.5 million cedis.

He said her relatives had not been able to settle the bill and had come to plead for her to be allowed to go home and come back later to pay. When contacted relatives husband and wife complained of poverty and said they would depend on donors and loans to settle the bill.