Tamale Teaching Hospital: 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.

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.

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.