The Tamale Teaching Hospital has received unfavorable press, which has angered traditional authorities in the Northern Region.
Every time there is news concerning the TTH, as the traditional rulers claim, it is invariably negative.
These issues came up when the Yaa-Naa representative in Tamale, Gulkpegu Naa Alhassan Abdulai, sent a delegate to speak with the hospital's administration about the facility's future growth.
Several stories have spread widely for negative reasons, according to Mohamed Rashad, who spoke at the meeting on behalf of the Chief, Kpalun Zobogu Na Naa. He claimed that once these unfavorable news stories surface, the chiefs become angry.
It's time, according to Naa Rashad, to work together to address the issues the hospital is now experiencing.
"Many unfavorable stories about this Tamale Teaching Hospital have spread far and wide, and as a result, whenever we hear those kinds of stories, as traditional authorities—especially on whose land the hospital is situated—we don't become happy, so he said we should tell you he is not at all happy," he said.
According to Naa Rashad, in the past they assumed that all of the unfavorable reports came from the TTH, but it was necessary to start separating these reports and looking into each one separately in accordance with the department they originated from.
"Back then, when the stories broke, we viewed the TTH as a whole, but now we think that the TTH cannot be the problem; the TTH cannot be acting improperly as a whole, but it could be a department or someone who is acting improperly to harm the TTH's reputation," Naa Rashad said.
He claimed that in the past, non-indigent individuals deployed to the hospital made such a strong impression that when it came time for them to retire, the chiefs chose to keep them on.
When it came time for certain non-indigents to depart in the past, we didn't want them to, but the law mandated that they do so in order to make room for new hires. "But what we are witnessing now is different from what it was in the past," he added.
In response to the complaints, hospital administrator Emmanuel Donko said that most of the problems were fabricated and that the media is responsible for spreading false information.
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