Policemen will be deployed to protect our hospitals – Ambrose Dery

The Minister for Interior Ambrose Dery has said his outfit will do all it can to protect hospitals by positioning policeman at the various healthcare centers in the country to ensure peace and calm.

"We are going to make sure that we have Police now at the big hospitals and in fact as much as possible, in all hospitals because if people are sick and have to be attended to and we now believe that people can go out of the way to disrupt their work we must protect them from such illegal act and that is a guarantee going forward,’’ he said.

The Interior minister made this known to journalists after the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), on Wednesday, 15 August 2018.

His comment comes on the back of attacks on the Tamale Teaching Hospital’s CEO which occurred on Monday. According to reports the perpetrators are said to be members of NPP youth believed to be affiliated with Kandahar boys.

The young men stormed the offices of the Chief Executive Monday and drove him out; citing incompetence and corruption on the part of the CEO.

The unidentified men alleged that the CEO, Dr David Kolbila has set up a number of companies that he uses to lobby for supplies for the hospital.

The four, said to be members of the Kandahar Boys, a Tamale-based vigilante group affiliated to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) were picked up from the base at Aboabo, a Tamale suburb on Wednesday afternoon.



Reacting to whether the four who have been arrested in connection to the attacks will be freed, he said "he will make sure due process is followed and if found guilty the law will take its course, he indicated.