Personnel from the Agency stormed the Lake Road Clinic to shut it down after gathering intelligence that the facility was conducting abortions illegally.
The HeFRA is tasked with ensuring that health facilities comply with the necessary standard while delivering services to the public.
The Registrar for HeFRA, Dr. Philip Bannor, said the personnel at the clinic are unlicensed, adding that his team found several unhygienic and unregistered medical equipment used for surgical procedures at the facility.
“We saw several equipment that seemed to be used but have not been washed or cleaned. We saw the operating table and the state it was in. It wasn’t in the best of shape,” he said, as quoted by Classfmonline.
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A clinic in Kumasi suspected to be performing illegal abortion has been shut down by the Health Facility Regulatory Agency (HeFRA).
The Lake Road Clinic is among nine facilities locked up in a two-day exercise aimed at sanitising the health service delivery sector.
All nine were found to be unlicensed with some recruiting persons with no training in the health profession.
Lake Road Clinic conducted illegal abortions and other gynaecologic procedures without requisite licensing
HeFRA through its intelligence picked information that the Lake Road Clinic conducted illegal abortions and other gynaecologic procedures without the requisite licensing.
At the time of the visit, the inspection team picked unhygienic and unregistered medical equipment used in surgical procedures.
Five more diagnostic centres have been shut down in a special operation to clamp down on unlicensed health facilities in Kumasi in the Ashanti region by the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA).