{"id":1575,"date":"2018-07-12T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/12\/a-taxi-driver-buys-bed-for-korle-bu-accident-and-emergency-unit\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:37:55","slug":"a-taxi-driver-buys-bed-for-korle-bu-accident-and-emergency-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/12\/a-taxi-driver-buys-bed-for-korle-bu-accident-and-emergency-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"A taxi driver buys bed for Korle Bu Accident and Emergency Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On UTV late night news on 12th July 2018, a taxi driver was seen donating a bed to the accident and emergency unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital,  Accra,  Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s health system has in recent times been plagued with a &#8220;no bed&#8221; syndrome which has received a lot of public outcry.  The situation got a lot of public attention when a 70 year old man died after been refused admission in 7 different hospitals because of no beds.<\/p>\n<p>Many patients need to buy their own seats to receive medical attention at the emergency centre.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many benevolent people who are contributing to resource the hospital, was a taxi driver who upon hearing the news was burdened.<\/p>\n<p>His action challenges me a lot as a public service worker.<\/p>\n<p>What can we do as individuals to improve our health systems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On UTV late night news on 12th July 2018, a taxi driver was seen donating a bed to the accident and emergency unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana. The nation&#8217;s health system has in recent times been plagued with a &#8220;no bed&#8221; syndrome which has received a lot of public outcry. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adugyasidennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}