The Chief Executive Officer of Kofi Job Construction Limited has paid an amount of one million Ghana cedis to settle the medical bills of some indigent patients at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and Suntreso Government Hospital in the Ashanti region.
According to Kofi Job, it is a paramount desire to give back to society and support the needy, especially indigent patients who remain on admission at hospitals due to their financial crises.
At the Suntreso hospital, he promised to procure ten incubators for the facility and was also awaiting approval from the roads ministry to tile the compound of the hospital to support quality health care.
“I am not doing this because I have money, but it’s a pledge I have made to God to support society with the little I can,” said Kofi Job.
The Medical Superintendent at Suntreso Government Hospital, Dr. Thomas Agyarko Poku, said most discharged patients cannot honour payment of bills, which puts a burden on the facility.
“About ninety percent of patients who come here are on health insurance, but some of the costs are outside the health insurance, which most people can’t pay. But as a policy, we don’t retain any indigent patients in the facility; due to that, it becomes debt for the hospital. So, if this is covered, then we have a space to accommodate other costs,” he expressed.
Dr. Agyarko Poku disclosed that over forty indigent patients are going to benefit from the intervention from Kofi Job.
He called on other individuals and groups to assist the hospital with insulators.
The Chief Executive Officer of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Professor Otchere Addai Mensah, says the hospital records over one thousand and eighty patients every day.
According to him, some parts of the facility need immediate rehabilitation, or risk closure in the next two years.
He said some wards take patients more than their original number, which he attributed to the detained patients who cannot afford to pay their medical bills.
“If all the indigent patients are able to settle their debts, it will create space at the emergency ward to admit other emergency patients, but the economic circumstances do not allow the patients to pay their cost,” he said.
Prof. Addai Mensah expressed gratitude to Kofi Job for his timely intervention to settle bills of most of the indigent patients.
“It will help create space in the various wards to admit patients,” he observed.