The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has uncovered startling revelations in its ongoing sitting, as management of the Tamale Teaching Hospital was questioned for continuing to pay salaries to a deceased staff member for 26 months.
During the proceedings, committee members queried how such an anomaly could go undetected for more than two years. One member bluntly asked hospital officials: “You validated and paid a dead man for 26 months. Didn’t you go to his funeral?”
The disclosure has sparked concerns about the hospital’s payroll validation processes and raised wider issues of accountability in the public health sector.
This development forms part of a broader scrutiny of state institutions, as the PAC continues its hearings into financial management and payroll control across the public sector.
