The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare has urged staff of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to exercise patience about the re-appointment of the immediate past Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso, to work at the facility.
According to him, should Dr Danso’s appointment be approved, he would have nothing to do with the management of the hospital he once handled.
“He cannot sit at home, he is doctor –a Consultant in plastic surgery and he cannot sit at home. I do not understand why the doctors are afraid of his presence at the hospital. He is not part of the core management of KATH,” he said.
Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare was speaking in an interview with a Kumasi based radio station, SILVER FM, monitored by The Chronicle over the week-end.
According to the Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Oheneba Danso has gone on retirement but he applied to provide a consultancy service to the hospital and this is an acceptable practice everywhere.
Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, a medical officer, academic and health management expert, who once served as CEO of KATH during the erstwhile administration of President John Agyekum Kufuor, used the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as an example, where after one has served at the high office of the university as a Vice-Chancellor, can go back and lecture.
He contended that Dr. Oheneba Danso is going back to KATH as a practising doctor and nothing else.
Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare underscored that had he been at the helm of affairs at KATH and that he would have loved to have the caliber of Dr. Oheneba Danso around him.
“If I were a CEO at KATH, these are the kind of people I would like to have around me, so we do not turn people away, the doctors must exercise patient.”
Nevertheless, he told the listeners that the current CEO of KATH, Prof. Otchere Addai Mensah is a great person who would like to tap into the experiences of his predecessors.
