Scandal At 37 Hospital!…

Male, Female Soldiers Queue For Same Toilets As Others Go For The Bush!

The very things most American soldiers went through in wars in Vietnam are currently happening in Ghana as the soldiers at the 37 Military Hospital now attend nature’s call in the open!
Of the five (5) toilets available to the 500 soldiers at the Junior Officers Mess at the 37 Military Hospital, only two are working thereby serving both male and female!
Soldier nurses and their auxiliary who are supposed to cater for patients at the various wards each passing day, join zigzag queues to attend to nature’s call! Primitive living conditions such as no bathrooms, no showers, no baths, no toilets, no water to brush their teeth is the order of the day even as the army prepares to recruit more soldiers!“Some of us attend nature’s call in the bush.
When Lt Gen Smith promised he was going to put the mess in good shape…we were hopeful…not knowing he was lying to us”, a soldier told the Searchlight newspaper. It would be recalled that on 10th June 2009, Lt Gen Smith told members of Parliament that the Military High Command suspended the 2009 recruitment exercise because it infrastructure was so inadequate that it would ‘end up corrupting our final products”.
He said, “Recruitment funding would therefore be used to improve physical conditions of the mess”. Interestingly, the Junior Officer Mess has not seen any rehabilitation as promised by the Minister but the government is going ahead to recruit soldiers some of whom would be at the 37 Military Hospital as medical corps!“Some people think that when you join the Green you are comfortable…they should come and see the hell we are going through, it is indeed hell and you people must help us”, another said.
Concerning the issue of accommodation, the shoe shine boy sleeping in a store is far better off than these soldiers who have to walk sideways before they enter their beds to catch some sleep.
This reporter though not fat had to struggle before he could sit on the bed of a soldier he went to visit. In order to have some seclusion, the soldiers who live in cubicles where in most Senior High School (SHS) three or four students’ sleep have 12 in each with curtains separating them. “The very acute living accommodation conditions has and would affect our morale, how do you expect us to give our best when the shoe shine is better than us,” one replied angrily.
Our military sources told us yesterday that the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was the 37 Military Hospital to put up face-saving durbar like his boss did earlier.

Source: The Daily Searchlight