A case of medical negligence that resulted in the death of a patient has struck the Central Aflao Hospital in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region. Two nurses are the subject of an investigation for allowing a patient who wanted to make GH400 MoMo payment to die on July 7, 2023.
The Daily Graphic reported that the hospital and two nurses who have been identified as being directly involved in the incident are also the subject of an investigation.
According to the paper, the alleged medical negligence of the two nurses resulted in the death of a critically ill patient who came to their health facility after they refused to treat her on the grounds that she required a deposit of money before she could be treated.
In company of her 19-year-old son, the deceased patient, Linda Adua, 39, is said to have made a number of pleas to the medical professionals that they wanted to pay with mobile money. However, none of their efforts were successful in persuading the nurses, who also insisted on a cash and carry system or nothing could be done to assist her.
Because the nurses left Linda unattended at their facility until she passed away, the case, which is currently before the president of Ghana, the minister of health, the Ghana Health Service, and the Medical and Dental Council, is said to have become critical.
The Medical and Dental Council and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) have swiftly responded to the petition from the deceased's family and sent a team of investigators to the hospital to investigate the incident, according to the report.
A senior sister of the late Linda, Abigail Adua, is accounted for to have let the paper know that it wasn't long after her sister passed on that her nephew was coordinated to take his mom to another administration office, where she was articulated done for.
She likewise let the paper know that Linda run an eatery in Aflao, where she resided with her child.
Jerry Nii Tetteh, her son, is said to have recently been accepted into the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, but he is now traumatized by his mother's death.
Abigail went on to say that the two nurses being investigated requested a deposit of GH400 from them, but they said they could only pay through e-payment, despite the fact that it was very early in the morning. This further explained what happened on the day her sister died.
"They arrived at the emergency clinic around 4:05 a.m., and were met by two medical caretakers on the job, who mentioned that they stored GH¢400 before she would be taken care of.
According to the report, she stated that her sister "pleaded with the nurses to take the MoMo and attend to her because it was too early in the morning to find a merchant to withdraw the money, but they refused."
At last, Jerry needed to travel from the Focal Aflao Emergency clinic to the Avoeme Intersection - a significant distance away, before he lucked out with a motorbike that took him to the Aflao Boundary, around two kilometers from the clinic, looking for a portable cash vendor.
"This while, Linda stayed situated in a wheelchair in the short term office (OPD) unattended to by the medical caretakers. Her vitals were also not taken, with the exception of her name, which was recorded in the OPD's patient register, and no details of the complaints were recorded,” she added.
Yet, he again didn't luck out, and meanwhile, Abigail said that her sister grumbled of challenges in breathing and requested help yet that was the point at which one of the medical caretakers got significantly more frustrated at her solicitation.
She told the newspaper, "One of the nurses retorted that she was disturbing them as she scanned her phone."
Abigail went on to say that things quickly got out of hand when another patient saw her sister fall while she was being wheeled to one of the wards.
She went on to say that when the nurses realized there was a risk, they told Jerry, the woman's son, to take a taxi and take his mother to another hospital because they couldn't help her.
“Another patient in the ward who had witnessed the entire incident rushed out to inform the nurses of what had transpired at that point.
"The medical caretaker, clearly detecting risk, advised Linda's child to get a taxi and take her to the Ketu South Civil Emergency clinic as her circumstance was impossible for them," she said.
However, Linda Adua was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Ketu South Municipal Hospital.
Dr. Gabrielle Kojo, the Aflao Central Hospital's Medical Director, confirmed the situation and said that a team had been sent to their facility to look into it.
He stated, "We have released the nurses involved for interrogation on the matter, which the police have summoned us to do."
According to the report, Linda's family has not yet planned her funeral.
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