The Minority Health Caucus in Parliament has demanded an unqualified apology from the Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, to a medical officer of the Tamale Teaching Hospital named Dr Valentine Akwulpwa.
In the course of an unannounced visit to the Tamale Teaching Hospital, the minister publicly confronted Dr Valentine Akwulpwa, a neurologist, while addressing some challenges at the hospital that he (Mintah Akandoh) had discovered upon his visit.
The challenges mainly bordered on the facility's deplorable state of equipment and infrastructure.
Among the critical equipment at the hospital found to be non-functional were ventilators, diagnostic and sterilisation machinery, and MRI scanning systems which reportedly had led to the death of a patient.
