The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is seeking the urgent prioritization and construction of a catheterisation laboratory after losing one of its critical medical staff who suffered a heart attack. Dr.
Kwame Adu Ofori, an Emergency Physician at the Hospital, is reported to have died over the weekend when his colleague doctors attempted saving him but lacked the crucial laboratory to treat an obstruction in one of the blood vessels pumping blood to his heart.The absence of the laboratory at Ghana's second largest teaching hospital has sparked grave concerns over the poor medical infrastructure in public health facilities in the country as Ghana boasts of only one of such facilities located in Accra.
It was a gloomy weekend at Ghana's second largest teaching hospital, the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, after health professionals watched helplessly to seek urgent medical attention for a colleague who suffered a myocardial infarction, otherwise known as a heart attack.
A specialized area to perform a minimally invasive procedure to diagnose and treat an obstructed blood vessel to his heart was missing at the Ashanti region's foremost hospital.
