Instill
discipline in subordinates – urges KATH CEO
Kumasi, Oct. 7, Ghanadot/GNA
– The administrative head of the Komfo Anokye Teaching
Hospital (KATH) has appealed to heads of directorates and
unit managers of the hospital to discharge their duties
diligently by instilling discipline in those they supervise
to improve output and ensure better service delivery to
patients.
Prof Ohene Adjei, Acting Chief Executive of KATH, said even
though there would be no room for either harassment or
witch-hunting on political, ethnic or religious grounds,
management would not be tolerant of indiscipline, laxity and
ineptitude.
The facility, he noted, would “never move to the next level”
with poor work culture.
Prof Ohene, addressing the opening ceremony of the 2009
mid-year performance review meeting of the hospital in
Kumasi on Tuesday, assured the staff of rewards for good
performance and warned of severe sanctions for erring and
non-performing staff.
The meeting was aimed at taking stock of the performance in
the last six months to help device new and appropriate
strategies to improve service delivery.
Prof Ohene Adjei said the major vision of his administration
was to create an atmosphere which would make KATH a health
centre that provides quality health care to the community.
He said though the hospital had seen some significant
improvements in the spread and quality of facilities and
also boasts of some of the best medical brains in the
country, these would not result in better service for
patients if the attitude of staff to duty was lukewarm and
apathetic.
Prof Ohene Adjei said with the increasing complexity and
enormity in health care delivery, coupled with the advent of
the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which was
exerting tremendous pressure on service delivery, there was
the need to draw up effective strategies to respond to the
emerging challenges by improving efficiency through waste
reduction and productivity enhancement.
“Our patients deserve better services than what they are
getting now and I will like to entreat all of you to device
and implement appropriate measures to make patients
experience at your various units and directorates a better
one. It is what we do and not what we are called that
counts”, he told the meeting.
GNA
