{"id":225308,"date":"2026-02-27T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-no-bed-no-chance-the-tragic-toll-of-ghanas-no-bed-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:17:13","slug":"ghana-no-bed-no-chance-the-tragic-toll-of-ghanas-no-bed-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-no-bed-no-chance-the-tragic-toll-of-ghanas-no-bed-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: No Bed, No Chance &#8211; the Tragic Toll of Ghana&#8217;s &#8216;No Bed Syndrome&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">GHANA&#8217;S healthcare system continues to grapple with a long-standing crisis known as the &#8216;No Bed Syndrome&#8217;, a situation where critically ill or injured patients are turned away from hospitals simply because there are no available beds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Behind this syndrome are real families forced to watch hope slip away in hospital corridors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The pain of this crisis was felt again in the recent death of 29-year-old engineer, Charles Amissah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">After&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260364.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHANA&#8217;S healthcare system continues to grapple with a long-standing crisis known as the &#8216;No Bed Syndrome&#8217;, a situation where critically ill or injured patients are turned away from hospitals simply because there are no available beds. Behind this syndrome are real families forced to watch hope slip away in hospital corridors. The pain of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,18149,12844,4508,4509,8226,257,254,25706,11260,10733],"class_list":["post-225308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bed","tag-chance","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-syndrome","tag-toll","tag-tragic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}