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.
Lake Road Clinic, a famous private health centre at Atonsu in Kumasi, has been closed down for non-compliance with the relevant health regulatory regime.
Operators of the centre have consequently been arrested by the Kumasi Central Police Command for breaching the Health Institutions and Facilities Act, 2011 (Act 829), established under the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency (HeFRA).
A combined taskforce made up of police officers, ambulance service staff, and personnel of HeFRA also closed down three other health centres identified in the metropolis for similar violations of the law.
They are De-Castro Home Care at Aboabo, well known for its claims about the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases; Krispat Hearing Centre Ghana Limited at Oforikrom; and Echoscan Diagnostic Centre located at the entrance of the Tafo Government Hospital in Kumasi.
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