To stop employees at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital from using social media while at work, administrators have disabled the hospital's computer systems.

The change is meant to maintain staff attention on patient care and raise the level of medical treatment provided at the hospital.

This is one of a number of measures and interventions implemented by the hospital’s administration to improve patient safety and comfort at the facility.

Professor Otchere Addai-Mensah, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the hospital, says the lives of patients who visit the facility, which serves as a referral hospital, cannot be jeopardized.

He said they have blocked the hospital’s “[IT] system to YouTube and other social media platforms to prevent staff from possible loss of concentration on patient care through the use of such platforms.”

The CEO was speaking to department and division heads at the hospital’s end-of-year performance review conference in Kumasi.