Dr Ekua Amoakoh
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| Political Activist | Deputy Spokesperson for H. E Dr Mahamudu Bawumia| Forever student of the human condition |Truth Seeker
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SYSTEM FAILURE IS NOT AN ACCIDENT; IT IS A POLICY CHOICE The death of Charles Amissah is not just a tragedy; it is a profound indictment of a failing system. While any loss of life is regrettable, the realization that this was entirely avoidable makes it an unconscionable crime of negligence. As a nation with decades of self-rule, we should be boasting of a robust healthcare infrastructure. Instead, we are witnessing the lethal consequences of system failure. 1. The Cost of Political Petulance Per the expert report by Prof. Agyekum Badu Akosa and his team, an effective Bed Management Network would have likely saved Mr. Amissah. We had a system that achieved nearly 80% national coverage, housing over eight years of patient records. Yet, due to the toxic culture of "canceling inherited projects" for political optics and “chop chop”,that progress was scrapped. We must ask the Ministry: What has our healthcare system gained from this retrogression? While they seek new contracts, the Ghanaian people are losing their lives. 2. The Erosion of the Ambulance Service What has happened to our EMTs? You inherited over 300 ambulances and a trained workforce of thousands. Today, we see a service run aground. • Why are our EMTs no longer receiving Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) training? • How can a Ministry of Health justify scapegoating frontline staff when the leadership has failed to provide the basic tools for survival? Administration of intravenous fluids in ambulance during transportation could’ve avoided the death of Charles Amissah- Prof Akosa report. When the policy direction is Abobolance, then the system is in trouble. 3. Stop Scapegoating Our Doctors It is cowardly to blame overworked, underpaid Medical Officers for a "death trap" system they didn’t create. • Our doctors are treating patients in corridors. • "Improvisation" has become the standard operating procedure due to a lack of resources. • Fresh Medical Officers and thousands of nurses are sitting at home unemployed while the patient-to-doctor ratio remains dangerously high even at Ridge, Police Hospital and Korle Bu. To the politician enjoying the trappings of being a parliamentarian, with an army of staff to cater for your every whim: Do not lecture a tired young doctor on a "crazy" night shift about a referral they innocently made that has lead to a loss of an innocent life, their hearts are already burdened by the “had I known” menace. Your policies have ensured that finding a bed to refer to is like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. No doctor finds joy in losing a patient. None. No one refers with malice. 4. Our Demand for Accountability We don’t need "chop chop" contracts; we need functioning hospitals. We have completed and near-complete facilities rotting away while the Ministry plays politics with human lives. Employ the doctors. Employ the nurses. Reinstate the national healthcare database. Restore the Bed Management System. Work was started on a national ambulance network database, what is the progress? Our deepest thoughts and prayers are with the family of Charles Amissah. No family should ever have to endure a loss like this. We will not stop demanding a system that values life over politics. Video: Oforikrom District Hospital Photos: Suame District Hospital
Dr Ekua Amoakoh10,473 views • 25 days ago
The Ghana Priority Health Infrastructure Project aka Agenda 111 will impact our healthcare system at levels we can’t even begin to comprehend now. Inching us closer to being the first country in Africa to achieve universal health coverage. The ultimate aim of bringing quality healthcare to everyone’s doorstep is closely rivaled by the many jobs that these projects will provide in over 70 districts. These hospitals will employ nurses, doctors, pharmacists,allied health professionals, support staff, administrators, IT professionals and on and on. Modest estimates are over 60 000 new jobs. Vote number 1 #BawumiaForPresident #ItIsPossible
Dr Ekua Amoakoh127,392 views • 1 year ago
The mercury free gold catcher machines are here. This is leadership not “nobody in my government will engage in small scale mining” when your parliamentary candidate for Amenfi Central says she’s being doing Galamsey since 8 years old. Such a wicked party the NDC is to try to weaponize our water. 3nfa
Dr Ekua Amoakoh95,848 views • 1 year ago
Dear Patriots, Early presidential election a master stroke of political maneuvering I find it unfortunate and sad that such a brilliant strategy adopted by our great party has to be explained in such detail, not for anything else but because of deliberate attempts from some of our own brothers who seem to constantly want to attack their own party for individual interests. A critical study of the decision to conduct an early presidential primary for our flagbearer will only show how that decision benefits any candidate who emerges rather than it favors any candidate now ahead of the election. This decision gives whichever candidate that emerges a head start which will make our goal of victory 2028 a great possibility. Do we want the chaos to continue or do we want to win election 2028? Some patriots are also genuinely skeptical and require further explanation on the advantage this approach brings. I find Paul Adom Otchere understood and explained it great here!
Dr Ekua Amoakoh38,808 views • 11 months ago
Someone seems really impressed with the NPP administration backed Zipline. One of our manifesto promises I really hope sees the light of day is our plan to introduce a centralized national database for all blood banks across the country so essential blood products can then be sent across the country efficiently.
Dr Ekua Amoakoh39,162 views • 1 year ago
Essentially out of every 20,000 requests a health facility will make from the medical stores through zipline, a family planning supply(condoms, IUDs etc) will be included, together with other supplies like blood products and vaccines. This scenario is for one single flight. This occurrence happens once out of every 20,000 flights. In that same flight package other items would be included, life saving blood products,vaccines etc. For any minister of health to take this very nuanced occurrence to make a case for cancellation of these efficient deliveries to deprived areas is both regressive and strange. But coming from the same party that came up with “the drones will take photos of naked women” this is not surprising. There just seems to be a basic lack of appreciation for progress
Dr Ekua Amoakoh16,937 views • 6 months ago
The NPP absolutely wiped the floor with whatever record the NDC has with regards to healthcare. From free post graduate residency, implementing free maternal healthcare, NHIA, over 30 hospitals started and completed, completing 8 NDC hospitals projects, finishing President Kuffour’s eurojet hospitals left to rot by Mahama, introducing zip line drone delivery, digitizing healthcare record, agenda 111 to bringing back the tax waiver on car imports for health workers that was wickedly taken away by ex President Mahama
Dr Ekua Amoakoh23,269 views • 1 year ago
Same book just a different chapter from the NDC. Instead of taking a soft approach of negotiating they resort to threats and incessant attacks on workers just demanding better conditions. This coming from supposed social democrats is just ridiculous. Close to $300 million for Goldboard promptly but nurses can go to hell? Now you expect my grandma who receives less than 1000 cedis as pension to come back and work instead of solving the problem?
Dr Ekua Amoakoh15,283 views • 11 months ago
*Dr. Gideon Boako writes on Cedi Performance and the underpinning Bawumia Formula* *Like the typical NDC, our Goldbod CEO, Sammy Gyamfi, is failing to appreciate the issues and show gratitude for implementing the Bawumia Formula.* They steal your ideas and insult you on top of it!_ 1. First, why are we all celebrating a stronger cedi today? 2. Yesterday, the Finance Minister attributed the cedi’s strong performance to the NPP’s Gold for Forex initiative! Well, he said the programme of the GoldBod to buy and sell gold. Yes, Gold4Forex! 3. But, how did it all begin? Whose idea was it to leverage our gold to stabilise our currency, the cedi? 4. It was Bawumia! He found a solution to the problem that the country had battled with since the 1960s without success, cedi depreciation. 5. *It was Bawumia who realised that we can use our own gold to protect our local currency* and he started on two fronts: (a) by doing what no government had done before, building up Ghana’s gold reserves heavily and (b) by selling gold to tackle a forex problem for buying the one commodity that affects the price of everything, petrol/diesel, with the Gold for Oil initiative. *Remember that G4O was a pilot scheme*. 6. The experiment worked, with the Central Bank accumulating gold reserves and releasing cedis for PMMC to buy gold for forex. Indeed, BoG used gold for forex (G4FX) for several items, including drugs, legitimate repatriation of profits for multinationals, eg, $211m for MTN stuck here for years. 7. *Bawumia promised in 2024 to institutionalise Gold for Forex to make it the main basic anchor for cedi’s stability.* 8. He laid out his plans in the NPP’s 2024 Manifesto. The NDC read it. Liked it. 7. He did not win, but the NDC which won saw wisdom in it and, with the GoldBod, has made G4FX their only known key policy! Not even 24 Hour Economy has happened! 8. But, when Bawumia started this G4FX agenda, the NDC called him all sorts of names. They said it could not yield any results. They even described it as corrupt! But Bawumia believed in his ideas, and he had the support of his boss, President Akufo-Addo, to pursue the plan. Today, we are here because of Bawumia’s brains, his vision, and his ability to find solutions to Ghana’s problems. 9. *Today, not only NDC, all gold producing economies in Africa, including Namibia and Burkina Faso, are using the Bawumia Gold Formula to achieve macroeconomic stability and protect their economies.* 10. But, is the Mahama government going about it the right way? We doubt it. We are worried. 11. The aim of Bawumia and the NPP was to build both gold and gross international reserves to appreciable levels before seeking to inject dollars into the economy as a measure to contain depreciation. 12. The NDC has neglected building up our gold reserves since January and only focusing on buying gold for forex. This imbalance will cost us dearly if not fixed quickly. 13. You cannot continue injecting dollars without addressing the structural defects that keep the local currency on the depreciating path. 14. Gold for Forex is one thing, but where is the industrialisation policy too? 15. If today’s quantum of reserves had not been built by the previous government, there is no way the current government could pump such a huge amount of dollars into the market to contain the depreciation. 16. If the NPP government had not thought about the future, the cedi would have been suffering today. Mahama should think about the future like we did, start again to build higher gold reserves, and let’s see his industrialisation programme as well. 17. For now, please thank Bawumia and the NPP for bringing the idea of using our gold to stabilise our cedi. Don't be ungrateful. Ghana succeeds for all of us. Shalom.
Dr Ekua Amoakoh12,625 views • 1 year ago
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