I Wont Allow Ghanaians To Have Short Term Memory-douglas Adu-fokuo, A Concern Nurse

Questions must be answered before Ghanaians can donate the GHC 1 each. GHC 1 is worth to work for.

24th June, 2015
The Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) has appealed to Ghanaians to donate one GH ¢1 each to help raise GH¢50 million to restock the Central Medical Stores (CMS). It follows an approval by the Ministry of Health for the society to launch a campaign to raise the amount to re-equip and stock the medical stores gutted by fire on January 13, 2015.

GH¢50-million fund
The Minister of Health, Mr Alex Segbefia, who gave the green light when the PSGH presented a second batch of essential drugs estimated at GH¢254,730 to the ministry at the temporary warehouse in Accra yesterday, gave assurance of the government’s support to enable the PSGH to raise the GH¢50 million to re-equip the CMS with essential drugs to make healthcare delivery easily accessible.

Previously : 14 January ,2015.
The Ministry of Health has said the burning of medical supplies at the Central Medical Stores (CMS), on Tuesday, would not immediately affect health care delivery.

“Though hundreds of thousands worth of medicines and equipment have been destroyed, hospital facilities and even regional medical stores have stock of supplies that could last for at least three months whiles we find the solution of restocking,” Mr Tony Goodman, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, told the Ghana News Agency, in an interview.

Mr Goodman, however, described the effect of the fire outbreak as “devastating”, after a team from the Ministry visited the warehouse later yesterday.

“We also have supplies from the World Food Programme stored in there and this is seriously going to affect us,” he explained.

The CMS is Ghana’s largest drug supply and distribution centre. It also has a large quantity of all the Ebola supplies meant to supply the sub-region should there be a need for it in any country.

Mr Goodman stated that the Minister had set up a committee to investigate the cause of fire that that started at the early hours of Tuesday.

The management of CMS is also to provide the stock of items that were lost in the fire outbreak at Tema.

He said the Ministry was waiting for the report from the Fire Service to ascertain the cause of fire even though there were speculations that it was caused by the security men at the warehouse when they were burning bushes that they have cleared from the surroundings.

QUESTIONS :
1) Where is the report on the "amazing fire outbreak at the medical store"? for 6 months now the report is still unavailable. hmmmm..... shaking my head

2) The MOH authorities went to the medical store on 12th January, 2015, can the MOH let us no whether there was "corrupt scandal / Suspected mismanagement/ alleged thieving" the day prior to the fire outbreak?

3) Can the MOH state categorically the number of medical items and costs respectively and pronounce them publicly since they were there on 12th January, 2015 before the fire outbreak on 13th January, 2015?

4) Can Ghanaians know what preventive measure MOH has instituted before we cab donate?

5) The government directed aftermath that all government institutions must be insured, MOH please has it been done yet? lets Ghanaians before you let them waste another money.

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