Teaching Hospital to provide hostel for patients’ relatives- (KATH)

People taking care of sick relatives admitted at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), will soon heave a sigh of relief as the management of the second largest referral facility makes moves to provide decent accommodation.

 

Under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement, the construction of a three-storey 134-bed hostel facility, is currently ongoing at the facility which takes care of referred cases from the whole of the Northern sector and neighbouring Burkina Faso, Mali, La Cote d’ Ivoire and Togo.

Nurse reuses Syringe to Administer flu shots, thereafter Patients tested for HIV and hepatitis....

Staff at a pharmaceutical company were tested for HIV and hepatitis after a nurse reused a syringe to administer flu shots.

In total, 67 employees of Otsuka Pharmaceutical in Princeton, New Jersey, were warned they may have been exposed to “infected blood”.

Healthcare provider TotalWellness confirmed that the nurse contracted to carry out the flu shots had “failed to follow proper medical procedures and safeguards”.