By Charles Takyi-Boadu
The Fast Track High Court hearing the case in which the management of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has been sued by 446 workers of the hospital for their inability to give them their (workers) registered land documents yesterday, lifted the embargo it placed on the hospital's bank account a couple of months ago.
This was after lawyers for the hospital, and the affected workers, managed to reach an agreement for an amicable settlement of the matter.
The hospital has thus indicated its preparedness to provide the needed documents covering the sale and acquisition of the said plots of land, located at Oyibi in the Greater Accra Region, to the workers on or before September 15, this year.
Counsel for the workers, Kakraba Essamuah, told the court that should the hospital fail to honour its part of the agreement, they would advise themselves, since the hospital cannot continue to dilly-dally with the affected workers.
This latest decision of the court comes as a sigh of relief to the management of the hospital, considering the fact they could not access the account after an earlier directive by the same court, which prevented them from going into the account.
The court decided to freeze the hospital's account as a result of its inability to comply with the court order to issue registered documents covering the payment of some plots of land situated at Oyibi in the Greater Accra Region, to some of its staff.
In its judgment of December 18, 2008, the court ordered the defendants, Korle-Bu, to “issue plaintiffs the registered documents on the plots of land they have paid for within two months.”
It also ordered the hospital to put the individual plaintiffs in possession of the plots of land, stressing, “if the defendant is unable to comply with the first two orders, then it shall refund to plaintiffs the monies paid for the land.”
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