Source: Africa Publicity
Doctors at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) in the Northern Region of Ghana have suspended emergency and outpatient services, leaving hundreds of patients stranded.
The doctors cited “unwarranted attacks” from Ghana’s Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini, as the basis for suspending their services.
The doctors took the decision to go on strike during an emergency general assembly meeting of the Doctors’ Association of Tamale Teaching Hospital (DATTH).
It came just hours after an earlier statement from the group condemning an incident during the minister’s visit to the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit on Tuesday, April 22.
The Association said in a statement that “All members of DATTH have proceeded on an indefinite suspension of all emergency and outpatient services (General OPD, Antenatal clinic, Specialist clinic, Paediatrics OPD).”
The strike left patients who arrived at the hospital early on Thursday, April 24, 2025 frustrated and stranded.