Medical Superintendent of the Bongo District Hospital, Dr. William Gudu has dismissed suggestions that he is grooming his son to take over from him as head of the facility.
Speaking in an interview on State of Our Nation, Dr. Gudu said his son is working at Manyhia Hospital in the Ashanti Region but only opted to assist at the Bongo Hospital when he visited him during his (son’s) leave and realised the pressure at the facility following the industrial action by physician assistants.
“My son was on leave and instead of sitting down in the house and decided to come and see how I’m doing here in Bongo. When he came, he saw the pressure. He also saw the physician assistants strike.
He couldn’t have seen his father dying this way and then he will be sitting down playing music till he resumes work. He decided to help me. Everybody was happy in the hospital when he decided to help,” he said.
A group calling itself United Brothers Association accused the Medical Superintendent and the hospital storekeeper of misconduct, mismanagement and dereliction of duty, which they say, have resulted in poor healthcare services at the hospital.
They claimed Dr. Gudu does not attend to patients in other wards except the maternity where he allegedly makes some monetary gains and has assigned his son to a sensitive ward without any supervision.
But responding to the allegations, the Medical Superintendent said his son never worked at the Children’s ward where the group claimed he had assigned him to.
He indicated that the young medical doctor was assisting at the male and female wards as well as the emergency ward and had to take on additional responsibility at the OPD when the physician assistants went on strike.
Dr. Gudu said he expected the group to be appreciative of the young man’s gesture rather than suggesting malice on his part.
“They said I assign children ward to him. The only day he went to children’s ward was when I was taking him round to introduce to the staff. He never had the opportunity to enter kids wards. He was working the male and female wards”.
He added, “Also help in emergencies in the hospital. When the physician assistants went on strike, he had to hold the fort at the OPD to be able to see all those patience that were not attended to. Is this wrong? I was expecting you to thank him rather”.
