How three 'big' hospitals defied GHS directives and left a hit-and-run victim to die

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 1 month ago

    Hello youth of Ghana...........you can take your own life with medicine.... For instance 15 paracetamol at once.....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

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  • The Motherland 1 month ago

    See this alien aka MUMBI SERAKI. Humans are commenting here and he is also comming to comment some. Akaii!!

  • Kwame King 1 month ago

    Parliament must pass an ACT NOW to criminalize no bed syndrome. No more directives. As a country we must hold our law makers accountable for this action. We need an ACT now

  • Sammy Gyamfi 1 month ago

    It's time we as a people demand justice from our so called leaders. I lived in south Korea, the health minister would.have resigned, followed by the DG of the GHS. We don't hold people accountable for their office and duties. ...
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  • The Spear 1 month ago

    I will always recall this:
    When the destitute-brained Akufo-Addo and the idiotic band of NPP leaders earmarked over $500 million for a Cathedral no one needed and wasting $100 million building its foundation, Morocco build ...
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  • Kwasi Addai 1 month ago

    Ghana is a funny country. When Akufo Addo was transporting stones from Israel in charted planes, nobody reminded him that our hospitals needed expansion. When he was digging a hole with millions of dollars, nobody uttered a w ...
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  • Paa 1 month ago

    A COUNTRY CALL SHIT HOLE...IN GHANA EVERY THING SEEMS WORKING FINE AND WELL...BUT IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO YOU... THEN YOU REALIZE NOTHING WORKS.

  • Phila phila 1 month ago

    This will only happen in Mahama's presidency

  • Insensitive politicians 1 month ago

    .....and Bagbin wants to build a new chamber for the comfort of the few ruling when the masses are dying because of lack of basic healthcare? May God forgive them. I'm deeply pained by this story. May his rest with the Lord.

  • Koo Dwomo 1 month ago

    How can access to a bed in an emergency care unit deny a dying patient treatment? My common sense is telling me that, the facility could take the patient in, give him/her the needed treatment, transport him/her to his own hom ...
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  • Kwame King 1 month ago

    We need the parliament to enact a law now to criminalize this insensitivity to hold anyone who turns away patience for any reason accountable. This is what I expect from save Ghana movement. Barker Vemawo, this is more impor ...
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  • Kwaku Adjei 1 month ago

    You are a compound fool. @ phila Phila

  • Jabeto 1 month ago

    When you see useless comments like this, you will l understand why Ghana is still suffering. Is either you lack sense of reasoning to even comprehend or you are Ignanimously ignorant to the extent that you didn't even underst ...
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  • Kofi 1 month ago

    True, but someone sunk millions of dollars in the ground in the name of building church for God

  • ASEMPA 1 month ago

    Fat liar, my sister in-law died at Korle-Bu in 2018 due to no bed syndrome and In 2019 my elder brother died in the same Korle-Bu for the same reason so what are you saying.

  • Mike 1 month ago

    VERY SOON YOU WILL SEE ALL THESE STUPID BOYS AND GIRLS WHO COULDNT EVEN PASS THEIR WASCE EXAMS AND SAW NURSING TRAINING AS A PLACE THEY CAN JUST GO AND DUMP THEMSELVES SHOUTING ON THE THE ROOF TOPS THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD INCR ...
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  • Yeboah 1 month ago

    You have said it all bro.God bless you

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  • Betty 1 month ago

    l believed the minister for health will take action since the dead can not be brought back to life.
    so sad

  • Rackus 1 month ago

    3 hours? He could easily have survived! Do we value human life at all? What a way to die?

  • Koo Nimo 1 month ago

    The hospitals involved should be charged with corporate manslaughter

  • Kofi YoHannes (Houston Texas) 1 month ago

    The lack of accountability in this country is very sickening.
    Heads of the three hospitals must be held responsible and someone needs to be penalized for the incompetence and gross violation of a policy directive.
    We need ...
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  • Kelvin 1 month ago

    God help our mother land ghana

  • PK 1 month ago

    This is a national disgrace if true. There has to be more to this story because it doesn't make sense! How can these three hospitals turn down treatment an accident victim?

    There has to sacking. Those responsible need to ...
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  • Asakramitoga 1 month ago

    What a callous attitude

  • KB 1 month ago

    The national cathedral site should be turned into a major Accident and Emergency centre in Accra,The population is increasing and the existing facilities cannot cope .Stop blaming health personnel.The self centered politicia ...
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  • Kk 1 month ago

    That,s NDC government ressetting agenda for u

  • Name 1 month ago

    IDIOT !!

    Do you know the quantity of hospital beds that the USD 58 million that Akufo Addo put into the national cathedral manhole could have bought?

    Taking a single bed to cost USD 5000 (much exaggerated!!), that amoun ...
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  • Ebenezer 1 month ago

    When these things happen, the people at the top will issue long statements to assure the populace that things have been put in place to prevent future occurrence. No one gets punished for these negligences. What happened to ...
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  • People should be jailed 1 month ago

    Until somebody from these hospitals is jailed, that stupid and primitive behavior will not change. Why is Ridge Hospital always in the news for bad behavior. The Ministry of Health should launch a through investigation on the ...
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  • King P 1 month ago

    When incidents like this happen, we need to go out and protest against the government, otherwise, it will happen again and again

  • Kwame Peter 1 month ago

    Kwaku Adjei,your comment cannot come from a Kwaku Adjei,be bold and write your comments under your real named,don't hide under the anonymity of social media and insult your betters,what exactly has John Mahama done for you pe ...
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  • Jack Toronto 1 month ago

    The so called Kwaku Adjei is suffering from inferiority complex.

  • Boamah 1 month ago

    Sad.

  • 2026er 1 month ago

    THE NPP-PROTOCOL WORKERS ARE EVIL TO THE CORE
    No properly qualified medical professional will fail to attend to the sick. God should curse and punish NPP till eternity day.

  • True Ghanaian 1 month ago

    Pls note that only ridge is under the ghana health service.
    Its disheartening to read some of these stories. The patient could've been treated in the ambulance if there was no bed while at the same time assessing the other p ...
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  • Kantow 1 month ago

    How are we running our hospitals in Ghana. If a whole neurosurgeon now head of GHS is corrupt what do you get? Reference the 4th Estate exposé....

  • Nkeaaaa 1 month ago

    What the f--k were you expecting? When did medical care become equivalent to typing a letter? Did we expect that he be managed in the ambulance?
    Let's be fair here. There was no bed. We won't accept it if he were managed on ...
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  • ASEMPA 1 month ago

    Due ne oyaw ne amanehunu, may the "hit and run" driver never know peace in his life, may suffering be his portion till till till.

  • Oklemekuku 1 month ago

    If you have ever lost a lost a loved one in this manner, you'd understand and know how it feels. Most Ghanaian healthcare providers especially doctors and nurses have no regards for human life

  • Raphael Abeam US 1 month ago

    This nonsense can never be done in the US. It's only Ghana that they don't take care of emergencies cases serious. Any vehicle that hears the sound of an ambulance pack his or her car

  • Abena Kusi.....Please use the Brain 1 month ago

    And my husband want us to relocate to Ghana after living g in America for 30 years.I think he just wants me to die like a stray dogs. Very poor health services indeed.

  • Honest 1 month ago

    I believe the important thing now is to find solutions to this problem
    Dedicated two beds for emergency issues in every health facility which occupants must evacuate within two hours after stabilization
    Communication netw ...
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  • HaBaHa 1 month ago

    The problem us cultural. Ghanaians have no concept of urgency. They label it stress and just avoid it. Its too stressful for the staff to attend the man so they abandoned him in the ambulance

  • Samy 1 month ago

    Som Appointees receive a whopping 150 thousands ghanacedis every 30 days for just sitting in their of A/C plus so many benefits and yet governments can’t buy hospital beds for emergency cases what a country .these polit ...
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