TTH: Patients stranded, consulting rooms empty as doctors begin strike

There was frustration and confusion at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) in the early hours of Thursday, April 24, 2025, as patients who had arrived early for medical attention were met with empty consulting rooms.

Doctors at TTH on April 23, suspended emergency and outpatient services indefinitely, citing “unwarranted attacks” from Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and Tamale North MP Alhassan Suhuyini.

The decision was made during an emergency general assembly meeting of the Doctors’ Association of Tamale Teaching Hospital (DATTH).

It came just hours after an earlier statement from the group condemning an incident during the minister’s visit to the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit on Tuesday, April 22.

“All members of DATTH have proceeded on an indefinite suspension of all emergency and outpatient services (General OPD, Antenatal clinic, Specialist clinic, Paediatrics OPD),” the Association announced.

During a visit by Citi News, on Thursday, April 24, scenes from the hospital showed queues of patients waiting in emergency and outpatient department, with no doctors or medical personnel in sight.