Patient stories
What it is actually like to be treated here
We have not tidied these up. If somebody says the waiting room was full, that is in there too — a page of unbroken praise tells a reader nothing they can use.
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My mother was admitted at eleven at night and a consultant saw her before midnight. Nobody asked us for a deposit first. Six days later she walked out on her own, and the ward sister still rings to check on her.
Akosua Bediako
Daughter of a patient, Kaneshie
In their words
Six more, unedited apart from the length
Collected from the cards people leave at reception and from the follow-up calls the ward sisters make. Names used with permission.
Broken wrist on a Sunday night. Triaged in ten minutes, X-rayed in forty, plastered and out before one in the morning. I had braced myself for the whole night.
Kofi Annor
A&E
The midwife who booked me at eight weeks was the one who delivered at thirty-nine. In between she rang me twice at home to check I was taking the iron.
Naa Ayeley Tetteh
Maternity
I came in for a screening I had been putting off since 2019. Blood pressure, sugar and lipids in one morning, results before lunch, and a follow-up already booked.
Mohammed Iddrisu
Preventive care
They gave me the estimate for my mother's surgery in writing, and the bill at the end was the estimate. That has not been my experience elsewhere.
Gifty Owusu-Ansah
Surgery
My son has asthma and Dr Asante knows him by name, not by file number. On a bad night that is worth more than the equipment.
Daniel Nkrumah
Paediatrics
I was seen in Tema and admitted at Adabraka a week later. Nobody asked me for the scan — it was already on the screen when the consultant walked in.
Abena Sarpong
Radiology
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