The Emergency Medicine Residents of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), have stated that a viral video showing how patients are treated on the floor in the accidents and Emergency Unit is authentic.
This is in reaction to a claim by the Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital, Dr Seidu Yakubu Adam that the video must have been AI-generated.
In a press release dated March 23, the Medicine Residents said, “We, the Emergency Medicine Residents of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), respond to management’s News Release of March 21, 2026. We write to ensure the public record accurately reflects the conditions under which care is being delivered and the systemic failures that made them inevitable.”
They added that, “The video footage is authentic. When the surge in patients exhausted all available beds, chairs were provided. When those chairs were also exhausted, patients had no option but to receive care on the floor. This sequence was witnessed by every member of our clinical team. Characterising this documentation as ‘Al-generated’ or ‘media slander’ is factually inaccurate and an affront to both patients and staff.”
They noted that, “The procurement of 200 beds, while noted, does not address the crisis. Beds without functional oxygen points, airway equipment, monitoring tools, adequate floor space, and sufficient nursing and physician staffing ratios do not improve care. They congest an already overwhelmed space. A comprehensive, resourced solution is required, not headline figures.”
According to the Medicine Residents, “This crisis is a symptom of a fractured national emergency response system driven by: 1. Dysfunctional referral pathways: Patients are dumped at tertiary centres because primary and secondary facilities cannot hold them. 2. Absent pre-hospital coordination: Patients arrive critically ill with no advance notice and no basic interventions initiated. 3. No national bed-tracking system making real-time patient redistribution impossible. We do not call for more beds in hallways. We call for a strengthened national healthcare grid.”
They urged Management and the Ministry of Health to move past PR-focused responses and commit to a transparent and systemic reform.
“The evidence is real. The crisis is real. And the response must be equally real,” they stressed.
