Korle-Bu’s neurosurgeon exposes Ofori-Atta’s medical doctor

Dr. Hadi Mohammed Abdullah, a leading neurosurgeon at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, has challenged some details in a medical report from the doctor treating embattled former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, who has been declared wanted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).

According to the letter from Dr. Ahmed Abdalrhim, a physician at the Section of International Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, Ofori-Atta underwent a biopsy and was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Dr. Abdalrhim stated that while surgery has been scheduled for Ofori-Atta, he requires time to recover from the biopsy and is therefore unable to return to Ghana at the moment.

“I am writing to inform you that Mr Ofori-Atta has undergone an MR-guided biopsy and has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. A surgical intervention has been deemed necessary, after the testing and MRI and biopsy procedures in March 2025, as I indicated in my February letter. This surgical procedure has been scheduled for June 13, with Dr Paras Shah of the Department of Urology… It is hoped that a closer date may open up.

“Following the procedure, Mr Ofori-Atta will require a recovery period before he is able to travel to his home country,” parts of the letter read.

Responding in an interview on JoyNews on June 7, 2025, Dr. Mohammed Abdullah questioned the claims made in the letter regarding the procedure.

“But usually, biopsies are done as a day activity. Usually, in Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, it is done on the ward, and the patient goes home the same day. Some even do it in the clinics,” he said.

He added, “This is what we do in Korle Bu, and I’m sure in many, many hospitals across the country where urological services are available.”

Dr. Abdullah further explained that the biopsy procedure is a minor operation used to diagnose a condition and not to treat it.

He also noted inconsistencies in the two letters issued by Dr. Abdalrhim regarding Ofori-Atta’s condition.

“From the two letters that I’ve seen, it was clear that as at March, he would be undergoing surgery. So, it’s very difficult to reconcile the two letters because the second letter now says that they had to undergo MRI-guided biopsy. So, it means at that time, no diagnosis had been made, unless Mayo wants to send that information that the biopsy was the surgery that they were talking about,” he said.