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CEO speaks on GH¢100,000 Christmas bonus allegations
Earlier reports indicated that the management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital spent over 100,000 cedis on Christmas bonuses alone.
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Dr Gilbert Buckle explained that the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital "doesn't pay bonuses and has never paid bonuses".
Earlier reports by Accra-based 3FM indicated that Dr Gilbert Buckle alone, the chief executive officer of the nation’s biggest hospital, took home 21,000 cedis in bonuses at the end of 2016.
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According to 3FM, each staff member received 100 cedis while those in management positions took home in total 17,000 cedis.
“The management members who benefited from the amount included Director of Medical Affairs, Director of Administration, Ag. Director of Pharmacy, Director of Finance, Director of Nursing Services, Ag. Director of General Services and Director of Human Resources,” the news report said.
When Professor Anthony Sallar, the board chairman of the hospital, was contacted, he said: “I'm highly surprised and would be very disappointed if it's true because management cannot propose and approve. I mean in corporate Ghana, such an amount is to come to the board for approval and it looks like it was done at the blind side of us.”
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But speaking to Accra-based Joy FM, Dr Buckle said that “there is just too much mischief in this thing”, explaining that if the hospital were to pay its 6,000-strong staff a GHC100 each, the total bonus payment would be GH¢600,000 not GH¢100,000.
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The CEO believed that the payment could be an allowance that has finally been processed after a long delay.
He, however, called for necessary investigations into the matter.
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