AIDS patient commits suicide

With imminent death staring him in the face after allegedly testing positive at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, a 38-year-old man of Kusa, near Adansi-Fomena in Ashanti, felt that the only option left to him was to end his life. And true to his word, Francis Kwadwo Amoako, last Saturday committed suicide by stabbing himself to death.

According to Mr R.N.A.L. Boye-Bi-Boye, Ashanti Regional Police crime officer, the deceased, who was resident in Accra, fell sick for some time and later tested HIV positive following a blood test. Aware of his fate, he returned to his hometown, Kusa, last week Thursday, to live with his relatives.

The deceased, who was said to have threatened to take his life, locked himself up in his room at about 11 am on Saturday and stabbed himself in the chest with a knife. Relatives and neighbours who heard him screaming forced his door open only to find him dead. A report was made to the Fomena Police who collected and deposited the body at the Bekwai Government Hospital for autopsy.