The Korle Bu Police are investigating a case involving the contamination of a medical doctor's drinking water with HIV-infected blood.
The act is suspected to have been carried out by another doctor following a disagreement between the two.
Both doctors (names withheld) work at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH).
Disagreement
Checks by Graphic Online at the Korle Bu District Police Command indicated that at about 11.30a.m. on May 6, 2021, a medical doctor, accompanied by the lawyer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Mr Kwame Gyamfi, filed a complaint at the charge office of the police station regarding an attempt to poison the doctor's drinking water.
The medical doctor told the police that he was on a 24-hour duty with six other doctors at the Labour Ward One of the hospital.
At the end of the 24-hour shift, the medical doctor allegedly returned to his consulting room and detected that his drinking water which he kept in a water bottle in the room was contaminated.
Suspicion
The doctor suspected that his water had been contaminated after he found a reddish substance which appeared like blood in the water.
Based on the doctor's suspicion, the water in the bottle was clinically tested and it was found that the substance was blood.
HIV test
When the blood was later tested, it came out positive for HIV.
The medical doctor told the police that he suspected one of his colleagues and gave his name to the police.
He claimed that the two of them had some disagreement while they were on duty at the labour ward.
Confirmation
When the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mrs Effia Tenge, was contacted by Graphic Online, she confirmed that the Korle Bu Police had received such information and that it was under investigation.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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The test results, If correct, only proved that it was contaminated with HIV infested blood. Does it prove who put it in? I will not be surprised if the same doctor making the claim intentionly contaminated the water. Just that he was not smart enough in his plan.
the water was tested and came out positive, didn't you read? You talked bgebge no sense. Take your time and read to understand before passing judgement.
Stop this childish publicity. Where is the evidence to back this claim? A doctor claims that he left a bottle of water he had been drinking in his own office for hours. According to him he came back to find the water contaminated with HIV infected blood and you are jumping to conclusion that it is the work of a colleague, just because they have had disagreements before. Are we that low in our thinking? If the colleague wanted to kill him by poisoning the water, he would make sure that the doctor drinks the contaminated water. Who would drink a red colored blood stained water, let alone a doctor? Is it not shameful for a doctor to make such allegation?
Ghanaians and evil. How wicked we can be. If he is doing this to a colleague what do you think will happen to patience he looks after? Hope something positive comes out of this for the one responsible to be arrested and disqualified from the practise.
I was once having a chat with a human resource personal , and i stated that recruitment should not be based on only competency but also morals . I will rather recruit someone with average competence but very good morals to a highly competent person but bad morals . Bad morals are difficult to deals with but competence can be built upon .
We are not safe at all.