Otiko Djaba, a former Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, has condemned the issue on the patient believed to be in their late 60s with POP on her legs has been dumped in a bush at Gomoa Ojobi.
The action, according to reports, was done by an alleged hospital ambulance from Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital in the Central Region.
The victim was on admission and receiving treatment at Winneba Trauma Hospital after being involved in an accident.
Suspended Medical Director of the Trauma and Specialist Hospital at Winneba in the Central Region, Dr George Prah has explained that after the patient from the Trauma and Specialist Hospital at Winneba in the Central Region was declared well by the Clinician, coupled with the fact that she was itching to leave the hospital, a consensus was reached by two social welfare officers, one at the hospital and one from Gomoa Ojobi for her to be sent back.
At this juncture, the hospital ambulance accompanied by the social welfare officer and a staff of the hospital were detailed to transport her accordingly to the “preferred destination of her choice after clothing her nicely and made available to her a wheel chair,” Dr Prah said.
Reacting to the issue in an exclusive interview on Atinka FM’s AM Drive with host Nana Fianko, a former Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, Otiko Djaba says the issue should be investigated and all persons found culpable should be brought to book.
She added that the social welfare officers should be questioned and be made to face the appropriate sanctions.
“Everyone involved in this should be brought to book to make them accountable. If you look at the oath that they swear, it talks about sympathy, so where was the sympathy? We do not go to the hospital as if it were a beach; you go there because you are in need, you are ill, or a loved one or a friend is not well. It is incumbent on the system to protect everybody who goes there and is not well” Otiko Djaba told Nana Fianko.
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