Complaints over high cost of dialysis treatment unfounded, previously our patients were not paying at all – Korle Bu CEO

Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah, the Chief Executive Officer of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, has stated that despite patients paying for dialysis, the funding for sessions remains critically inadequate.

Dr. Ampomah revealed that the hospital subsidises more than GH¢300 per dialysis session.

In an interview with Citi News, he suggested that renal patients should be mindful of the substantial subsidies provided and refrain from complaining about the fees they pay for dialysis.

“We proposed to Parliament to increase the fees for dialysis and so when we proposed to Parliament to increase the fees for dialysis, what we need to break even is around GH¢800. We proposed GH¢760 initially, but then now with the exchange rate movement, it will be around GH¢800 for us to break even.

“But then Parliament in its wisdom approved GH¢491 for Korle Bu. So it means that for every session of dialysis that Korle Bu performs, we under-recover by more than GH¢300.

“But previously, our patients were not paying at all. From 2017 to last year, they were not paying at all. So this period where they have to pay part of their dialysis treatment is something that they are not used to. Their complaints are unfounded.”

-citinewsroom