Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to go paperless


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Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital paperless

By Joyce
Danso, GNA

Accra, July 20, GNA – Government is working on
a plan to ensure that the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital would go paperless by the
end of the year.

This means that payments would be done electronically
and the printing of folders and cards would be done away with.

Mr Kweku Agyeman Manu, Minister of Health,
said under the initiative Regional hospitals would be linked up electronic

By Joyce
Danso, GNA

Accra, July 20, GNA – Government is working on
a plan to ensure that the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital would go paperless by the
end of the year.

This means that payments would be done electronically
and the printing of folders and cards would be done away with.

Mr Kweku Agyeman Manu, Minister of Health,
said under the initiative Regional hospitals would be linked up electronically
to a common platform.

Mr Agyeman-Manu said on at the launch of
Clinical Protocols for the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Accident and Emergency
Centre in Accra.

The clinical protocols and manuals are
expected to give guidelines to Nurses, Midwives and Specialists who would work
at the Emergency and Accident Centre.

He said the initiative should make it possible
for health facilities in the various regions to access patients’ cards and
Doctors would also be able to access people folders any time.

“If the initiative is enrolled out, it would
cut down the cost of printing of folders and 30 per cent printing work done on
most National Health Insurance claims.”

The Minister appealed to hospital to also come
out with a Bed Management Protocols which would ensure the availability and
usage of beds.

He announced that Doctors who undertake
specialised courses would offered “fee free” when they were enrolled this year.

Mr Agyeman-Manu said he was confident that by
the end year tenure of government, the country would see massive development in
the health sector.

The Minister commended staff of the Hospital
for the selfless dedication they had offered to the public over the years.

Dr Samuel Asiamah, Acting Chief Executive
Officer, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, said the facility would need about 600
beds to tackle the issue of no bed syndrome at the Hospital.

GNA


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