KATH Boss Dares Kumasi Pastor

Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, chief administrator of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has warned the public against the tricks of some fake pastors who make unnecessary claims to outwit them.

He described such pastors as tricksters and warned radio stations to screen pastors who, in radio broadcasts, make such unnecessary and misleading claims at the peril of the lives of the members of the public.

The Health administrator was reacting to claims by Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, founder and leader of Ebenezer Worship Center in a radio broadcast in Kumasi recently that surgeons at KATH left an operation knife in the abdomen of an unnamed woman during an operation.

The pastor said following complaints of stomach pains, the woman got healed at Ebenezer Worship Center, after she had been prayed for there.

According to a recorded broadcast of the pastor, the knife fell from the woman's private part after bleeding profusely for days as a result of his prayers.

Dr. Nsiah Asare has challenged Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom to produce the woman and the knife in question for identification to enable KATH management quiz the doctor for negligence and cause an investigation into the allegation.

The medical administrator described the pastor as a liar who was only exposing his ignorance of the anatomy of the human body by his unscientific claims.

He said complications in surgery are very rare in this age of modern technology. "In fact there are checks and balances because tools are counted before and after an operation and the possibility of a complication after an operation is one out of thousand and even that may happen once in ten years."

The KATH CEO has advised the public to seek proper medical treatment from the hospitals and not turn to fake pastors and cheats who themselves sneak out for treatment from medical doctors and go back to make weird claims of healing powers.

Nsiah Asare directed all those who choose to seek counseling in life to go to good pastors and teachers like Pastor Mensa Otabil of the International Central Gospel Church fame.

Nsiah said even though he believed in the healing powers of prayers as a born again Christian, claims such as those by the Rev. Adarkwah Yiadom amounted to commercialization of the church in order to make money.

Rev. Ebenezer Yiadom also claimed that another female nurse of the KATH who experienced chronic bleeding after being operated upon for fibroid at the hospital, spent huge sums of money importing drugs from Germany to no avail until she visited the Worship Center and got healed after taking some anointed oil and being prayed for at the Center.

The man of God is also claiming he can cure AIDS and has asked HIV/AIDS patients to come to his church for a cure. According to the recorded broadcast available to the Chronicle, he intends launching a crusade against the spread of AIDS.