Fire destroyed part of the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG’s) Sub-station “E” of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital yesterday.
The fire, said to have been caused by an electrical fault, partly burnt cables connected to the transformer that serves part of the hospital, leaving the Surgical Medical Emergency, Central Out-Patient Department (OPD), Accident Centre, Dental Department and the Pharmacy in total blackout.
Some patients and officials who saw thick smoke coming out through the window of the substation at 8:45a.m. used fire extinguishers to fight the fire before the arrival of fire service personnel few minutes later.
According to the second in command of the Electrical Workshop of the hospital, Mr Nana Agyemang Korang, the engineers of the hospital had worked on the change-over switches at the sub-station the previous day but could not finish with the work.
He said they decided to finish the work in the morning when they saw thick smoke coming out from the windows of the sub-station and called for fire extinguishers from nearby wards.
He said the engineers of the hospital were working closely with engineers of ECG to restore power to the departments affected.
The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mr Mustapha Salifu, said the engineers were working to replace the damaged cables caused by the fire and was optimistic that power would be restored to the affected areas, which he described as critical departments that needed immediate attention.
He, however, said if the engineers were not able to resolve the problem patients in the Surgical Medical Emergence Unit would be transferred to other wards in the hospital.
Mr Salifu assured Ghanaians that the management of the hospital was doing everything possible to address the problem.
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