The Emergency Medicine Residents of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) have responded to the recent accidents and emergency crisis.
In a statement released on Monday, March 24, 2026, it noted that the public record accurately shows the conditions under which care is being provided in the hospital.
They emphasized that characterising this documentation as ‘AI-generated’ or ‘media slander’ is factually inaccurate and an affront to both patients and staff.
"We write to ensure the public record accurately reflects the conditions under which care is being delivered and the systemic failures that made them inevitable," the residents affirmed.
The emergency unit asserted that the viral footage is authentic explaining the increase in patients exhausted all available beds, chairs were provided.
"When those chairs were also exhausted, patients had no option but to receive care on the floor," they indicated.
The residents emphasized that the problem is a national crisis not the hospital's problem explaining that the crisis is a symptom of a fractured national emergency response system, characterised by;
1. Dysfunctional referral pathways: Patients are dumped at tertiary centres because primary and secondary facilities cannot hold them.
2. Absent pre-hospital coordination: Patients arrive critically ill with no advance notice and no basic interventions initiated.
3. No national bed-tracking system making real-time patient redistribution impossible.
They highlighted that, the procurement of 200 beds does not address the crisis, they congest an already overwhelmed space, adding that a comprehensive, resourced solution is required, not headline figures.
"Beds without functional oxygen points, airway equipment, monitoring tools, adequate floor space and sufficient nursing and physician staffing ratios do not improve care," the residents disclosed.
The Emergency Medicine Residents, revealed that they do not need more beds in hallways but a strengthened national healthcare grid.
"We do not call for more beds in hallways. We call for a strengthened national healthcare grid.
"We urge management and the Ministry of Health to move past PR-focused responses and commit to a transparent and systemic reform. The evidence is real. The crisis is real. And the response must be equally real," the statement informed.
SOURCE : Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital
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