The death of a 70-year-old patient after being refused admission by seven hospitals betrays how “cheap” life is in Ghana, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, founder of policy think tank Danquah Institute, has said.
Mr Anthony Achemapon died on 3 June 2018 at the LEKMA hospital after he was refused admission at six hospitals he had earlier been taken to by his family.
Mr Acheampon’s case has sparked national outrage on social media, resulting in the Ghana Health Service instituting a probe to tackle the problem once and for all.
“What happened to the late Obiri Yeboah is so so sad that it calls for a complete national outrage. It shows the systemic deficiencies in our service delivery system. “Let us exert all the positive pressure we can muster to let this Government use this case of yet another avoidable death as the wake-up call to significantly tackle the systemic lack of care in our emergency response system, namely availability of ambulances, beds, etc. “Life is sadly too cheap in Ghana and this must change!” Mr Otchere-Darko wrote on Facebook on Monday, 11 June.
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Oh Gabby, life is too cheap because of the cheap politics NPP is doing. Hospitals are abandon coz of cheap politics. Open UGMC now.
The NPP government should look into the funds investing in the project ID Cards. they should think of getting National Data Base for the whole country which will help in the system to be fixed one and for all. always we think of short team project and people get rich out from it and we come back to square one and that is why we are always happy called developing country but there is no development in the country. A country which do not have a Wifi in his International Airport and we expert people to travel to our country to do investment and also Ghana our Airport Taxes is too much. the government should look at it and reduce it people travel to different countries to make investment all because of these issue in the country.
Look at these sick NDC people talking about Gabby's wise comments. You guys should rather talk about Woyome and your dubious contracts.
Hospitals are still abandon due to politics. What is the bed capacity of the Legon hospital?
Gabby, you know what because politicians & most citizen are dubious like Anas. Deceptive azaa folks.
This is what happens when your appointees start grabbing money from all angles, buying new cars and taking 2-year rent advances in dollars as though they were homeless before their appointment. Much as l voted for NPP, you guys make me sick.
KWEKU, am happy for ur post this mornung ....YOU DO ALLLLLLLLLLL
If life isn't too cheap in Ghana, u people wouldn't be driving V8 when the whole greater Accra has less than 5 functioning ambulances.... not to mention the unavailability of bed space while u sink $1.2b to print cards that could be done at 10% of that amount
If life isn't too cheap in Ghana, u people wouldn't be driving V8 when the whole greater Accra has less than 5 functioning ambulances.... not to mention the unavailability if bed space while u sink $1.2b to print cards that could be done at 10% of that amount
he's just being hypocritical