Four members of the immediate past board of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) have condemned the payment of an amount of about GH¢150,000 to the management of the hospital as end-of-year bonuses without recourse to the board.
According to them, they never approved of any amount of such nature to be paid to any management member.
A statement signed by the immediate past Board Chairman of the hospital, Prof. Anthony Mawuli Sallar, said the management had no right to pay such an amount to themselves.
“We, the four government appointees on the erstwhile board, are convinced that the conduct of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr Gilbert Buckle, and the eight directors amount to exercise of bad judgement and insensitivity to the citizens of Ghana and the 4,000 workforce and current and future patients of the KBTH,” it said.
The three other members who also signed the statement were Mr Henry Atta Paidoo, Mr Kempes Ofosuware and Mrs Perpetua Kafui Annan.
“It must be reiterated that management never submitted to the board any proposals for the payment of bonus to the staff including the directors and management for the two years” tenure of the dissolved board because the KBTH does not operate any bonus scheme as a result of its precarious financial situation.
“It, therefore, came as a shock to the four government appointees that a colossal amount of over GH¢ 100,000 had been paid to only nine directors, six of them executive directors on the board and very much aware that such a proposal should have come to the board for consideration at the last meeting of the board held on January 4, 2017,” it stated.
It explained further that the board assumed the leadership of the hospital at a time the institution was in turmoil and dire financial straits, hence could not approve such a colossal amount as bonuses for management members.
“The board, during its tenure over the last two years, worked strenuously even as it was confronted with monumental challenges from within in its efforts to solve the myriad of problems facing the country’s premier referral hospital,” it added.
The statement emphasised that over the last two years, a lot of pragmatic measures had been put in place to transform the centre.
“Huge financial resources would be required to sustain these staff welfare benefits and for nine directors of the KBTH to dole out GH¢ 153,000 to pay themselves an allowance of GH¢ 21,000 to the CEO and GH¢ 17,000 each to seven other directors and GH¢ 13,000 to Head of Internal Audit at the expense of a workforce of close to 4,000 employees who toil to generate the internal revenue and at the blind side of the board, lacks equity, fairness and transparency.”
It questioned the criteria which were even used to dole out the money to the said management members.
Even though Dr Buckle has denied the allegations, the Health Minister nominee, Mr Kwaku Agyeman Manu, has disclosed plans of launching a full-scale audit into circumstances that led to the alleged payments.
The former Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman said he would call for the full facts as the first step towards unravelling the supposed financial malfeasance at the nation’s premier health facility.
Source: Daily Graphic
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The evil that men do live after them. With all the pride and ego of you take a quite time to reflecton your unavoidable END and live the rest of your life in total love. All the unapproved allowances, Korlebu trust fund money, Inintramural allowances, interdiction of deligent staff, dismissal of competent staf, sacking of head of department etc. That the end you are food for common maggots; hell is waiting also for you, your accountability to God and His beloved Son. gilbert Buckle, Read what Bible says about taking monies that does not belong to you.
I m very disappointed in this guy. dr gilbert Buckle. He is very vindictive and has no good plans for KBTH. During his reign, Korlebu teaching hospital has so many court cases. He is simply a bad leader. He interdicted a head of department( laboratory) and later released him of his post for nothing. He sacked someone (pharmacist) when there was an injuction on an interdiction case in court. Dr Gilbert Buckle should be interdicted immediately and investigated asap. He has not demonstrated good leadership qualities. you dont share monies without the approval of your board. The CEO, Dr Gilbert Buckle knows he is going to be fired because he has a lot of issues (court cases, payment of unapproved allowances, procurement issues and incompetence). Authorities should act swiftly before its too late. I rest my case.
The CEO of KBTH Dr. Gilbert Buckle and the 8 management members should be interdicted immediately for the matter to be investigated fully. How can only 9 management members take 153,000 GH cedis as exra mural allowance. what kind of etra mural did they do? How muuch was paid to those who generated these monies? Who approved for these payment to be made? what creteria was used to determine the nine beneficiaries? was there fairness and equity? was there good judgement? did these 9 demonstrate good leadership qualities?. Remnants of the previous administration are deliberately wreaking havoc with intent to sabotage the new administration and make it unpopular. The government should be swift and start the clean up now. We cant allow unpatriotic citizens to undermine our efforts. The CEO, Dr Gilbert Buckle knows he is going to be fired because he has a lot of issues (unapproved allowances,procurement and incompetence) and he is a known NDC member. Authorities should act swiftly before the ndc begins to lie to the folks there that its a new NPP policy. I rest my case.
ALL THOSE CRIMINALS MUST REFUND THE MONEY AND JAILED AT THE SAME TIME, WHAT KIND OF LEADERSHIP IS THAT? ALWAYS CREATE AVENUE TO STEAL FROM POOR GHANAIANS ,WHY?