Accra — A general hospital in a port city in Ghana has driven away patients including pregnant women due to shortage of doctors since last Sunday.
A notice posted on the walls of the general hospital in Tema, 30 kilometers east of here, asked clients seeking medical attention to visit other hospitals for their own safety as a result of the shortage of doctors in the hospital, especially at the maternity ward.
Ghana Health Services said that it had requested more medical doctors to the hospital to avert any death.
In a telephone interview with Xinhua, Accra Regional Director of Health Services Dr. Irene Agyepong said that moves had been taken to return conditions at the hospital to normal.
"We have put in a request for more medical doctors to fill vacant positions at the hospital" and to improve the situation as soon as possible, she added. (Xinhua)
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