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The Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr. Prosper Akanbon is said to have been relieved of his duties as the CEO of the Teaching hospital.
Dr. Akanbon is almost two- years to retire from position but is been replaced with Dr. David Zaawumya Kolbila, a Gynecologist and a lecturer at the University for Development Studies Medical school.
Dr. Akanbon was appointed the CEO of the premier Tamale Teaching Hospital(TTH), in September 2014 and took over from the current CEO who was then in acting capacity after the departure of Dr. Ken Segoe.
His administration since the inception of the current government has been characterized by violent agitation from NPP vigilante group, the Kandahar boys who locked up his office demanding his removal.
This was also in furtherance to calls by a group calling itself the Coalition for Change in Government Institution pressuring government to as a matter of urgency deploy a team of Auditors to the Tamale Teaching Hospital(TTH) to conduct in-depth investigations into what it describe as pure thievery.
The group raised the concern about the return of ‘cash and carry’ to the facility compelling subscribers of the National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS) to purchase covered drugs from outside at their own cost.
It believed the Hospital Administration Management Software(HAMS) used in billing client is shortchanging them and therefore insist an audit must be conducted to unmask modus operandi of this ‘stealing system’.
“The coalition has observed after a careful study, that the engine for the stealing in the hospital is greatly done by the software called HAMS. This intranet system is an automated one with fully loaded tariffs for every condition as either covered by NHIS or not.
The monster called HAMS, is deliberately fashioned to loot unsuspecting customers. It automatically bundles every patient for the consumables for the same procedure or treatment.
By inference, the NHIS pays for the same treatment the patient pays for, even sometimes 3 times the same amount”.
