The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi has set up a five-member committee to investigate an allegation of contaminated blood released from the blood bank of the hospital for transfusion to a patient in a private hospital in Kumasi.
One Addo-Kwabla in a post on Facebook had accused KATH of selling two units of blood to his mum who was receiving treatment at a private clinic in Kumasi and the blood tested positive for HIV and Syphilis.
The allegation, according to Addo-Kwabla was based on an initial screening of the blood units by the said private medical center in Kumasi.
He alleged that the two different blood bags from the hospital tested positive for HIV and Syphilis, at a time his mother was set to be issued the blood.
He said his mother had been sick for some months and the family had sought treatment at a private facility in Kumasi called the Kean Health Centre.
Ahead of one of his mother’s appointments at the health centre, she was asked to bring along some blood.
When the blood was brought along on the day of the appointment, “they took the blood and said they were doing tests. We sat waiting and later a lady came and told us the blood we had was contaminated; both of them. One had HIV and other had Syphilis,” Adolf Addo recounted in a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM.
Investigations
Following the allegation, the hospital authorities have taken up the matter and set up a committee to investigate the allegation.
The matter has also been reported to the police for investigations.
A statement dated Saturday December 1, 2018, signed and issued by Mr Kwame Frimpong, Public Relations Officer of KATH said the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital is taking the allegation “very serious,” and therefore the committee which has been set up was to help establish the veracity or otherwise of the allegation."
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