Founder and CEO of the MILLS Institute, Koku Anyidoho, has once again debunked rumours surrounding the death of former President John Evans Atta Mills.

Speaking on Upside Down on ChannelOne TV on Sunday, May 10, 2026, Anyidoho clarified that the late President was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the 37 Military Hospital; an ICU named after Fathia Nkrumah and not to a maternity or children’s ward, as widely speculated.

The former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress expressed disappointment over misinformation that circulated following Mills’ passing, including claims that the former President had been transported in a private vehicle, taxi, or pickup truck.

“When he passed, a lot of propaganda [claimed] that I took him in my vehicle, we didn’t treat him well, we took him to a children’s ward. Some said it was in the bucket of a pickup, others said it was in a taxi,” he said.

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Anyidoho stressed that President Mills was transported in a fully equipped ambulance with doctors and paramedics on board and was taken directly to the ICU.

“An ambulance with doctors, with paramedics. And he was not sent to a children’s ward, he was not sent to a maternity ward,” he stated.

He explained that the confusion stemmed from the name of the ICU facility.

“On that fateful day, he was taken straight to the ICU. But the ICU is named after Fathia. So, because of the Fathia name, people assumed he had been taken to a maternity ward,” he explained.

“The ICU is named after Fathia. So because of the name ‘Fathia’, many people mistakenly thought he had been taken to a maternity ward,” he added.

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Anyidoho further revealed that months before his death, President Mills had personally visited the 37 Military Hospital to commission several upgraded facilities, including a refurbished mortuary and the newly equipped ICU where he was later admitted.

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