The renal dialysis unit at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) is at risk of shutdown due to its inability to raise funds for purchasing consumables needed for service delivery.

Prof. Vincent Boiman, the Head of the Unit, revealed that the unit incurs a loss of GH₵380 with every dialysis session, leading to accumulating debt.

This situation is now impacting service delivery and could potentially result in the unit's closure.

Speaking to JoyNews, he said, “Each time, we dialyse one person at GH₵380, we lose another GH₵380 because the actual cost is more than double what the patients are paying now. We are actually incurring costs which is not being paid for.”

“In terms of improving their quality of life, in terms of prolonging their treatment in the long term or giving them a chance of surviving for a long time and good treatment satisfaction. Probably, we may not be able to provide all these things because we are not charging at the rate that will help us to buy the consumables needed.

“For instance, what if this unit closes in the next one or two months because we are running out of consumables and we are dialysing at the rate that we can’t buy enough?.”

On February 9, Dr. Owusu Sekyere, the Director of Medical Affairs at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), announced that the facility had accumulated an additional debt of GH₵2 million for treating kidney patients.