The Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s management has emphasized that the facility’s revised dialysis pricing has not yet been introduced.
According to a notice sent by the hospital’s dialysis unit head, the cost of renal dialysis has been raised from GHS380 to GHS765.42.
This has created worries among the general population, who are concerned about the treatment’s expense.
According to a statement obtained by Citi News, the management has yet to submit the request to Parliament for approval.
Meanwhile, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the ranking member of Parliament’s Health Committee, claims that the proposed price places undue strain on the public.
“If you are charging GH¢765 per dialysis, in some cases you have to do it three times within one week. And so we are talking about more than GH¢2000, within one month you are talking about in the region of about GH¢9000. Even me as a MP I can’t afford that and so the main objective of a public health facility is not profit making.”
“The main objective of every public health facility in this country is to offer quality healthcare to the people, it is not profit-making. Because we even know other private and quasi-health facilities that are charging less than 700 and yet they are running their departments and units,” he stated.
