Bureau of national investigations (BNI) are on the heels of 12 Kole-Bu Teaching Hospital staff in Accra for failing to repay salary advance forwarded to them by management of the facility.
According to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Gilbert Buckle, management of the facility made available over one hundred and twenty thousand Ghana Cedis as salary advance to some staff in 2010.
Out of this amount, ten thousand, seven hundred Ghana Cedis are still outstanding. This was due to the inability of about 12 staff to repay monies paid to them as salary advance.
This came to light, when the health ministry as well as its agencies took their turn at the Public Account Committee (PAC) of Parliament sittings in Accra.
When a member of the committee, Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central in the Central Region, Hon. Rahpal Nana Adwoa Appoh asked why the amount was still sitting in the books of the hospital, the CEO in his replied to the question, explained that 12 of the staff who received the facility had absconded without any trace.
He noted that some of the staff got transfer and left whiles other just resigned from the hospital without paying back monies they took.
The amounts which were given as salary advance ranges from 400 to 4,000 Ghana Cedis depending on one’s rank.
Dr. Buckle hinted that the hospital has contacted the various security agencies especially the BNI to help them retrieve all outstanding debts.
He explained that as it stands now there are no mechanism to retrieve the monies on the own, since the staff involved were paid through the Controller and Accountant General’s Department. Due to the dishonesty on the part of the staff, the hospital has scraped that golden opportunity. It stated.
“Salary advance are not part of anybodies’ conditions of service, it comes at the discretions of management” he opined.
The Korle Bu CEO, however, assured the committee that every necessary means would be use to retrieve the remaining ten thousand seven hundred Ghana Cedis.
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