A common thief has invaded the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Hospital in Koforidua, the Eastern regional capital and succeeded in absconding with five mobile phones and monies belonging to nurses, helpless dying and cholera patients at the hospital.
Speaking to the DAILY HERITAGE, one Mariama, a patient who was a victim of the theft explained that the incident occurred around 2am on Tuesday.
According to her, the thief disguised himself as a staff of the hospital by wearing hand gloves and moved from ward to ward and pretended to be working.
She said after realizing that both nurses and patients were fast asleep, the thief sneaked into the children's ward and took away bags containing mobile phones and unspecified amount of money, then went to the OPD and took away five mobile phones belonging to student nurses undertaking their clinical duties and absconded.
The victim lamented that �when I woke up around 2:30am, I realized my hand bag containing a mobile phone and GH�500.00 was missing; during my search, a woman who was with me also realized her bag containing a mobile phone and money had also gone missing, so we quickly raised alarm which drew the attention of the student nurses who also complained that the thief had absconded with their five mobile phones.�
The victim added that, two security men who were swerved by the thief came around and mounted a search for the thief around the area; however, the thief managed to run away.
Speaking about the incident on Emak FM, a Koforidua based radio station on Tuesday, the administrator of SDA Government Hospital ,Mr. Asamoah, confirmed the incident adding that, during the incident, only two security men were on duty but were undertaking surveillance at the other department which enabled the thief to embark on the theft.
He, however, assured that measures have been put in place to curb any such unfortunate incidents.
He said, the hospital is yet to make official complaint to the Police, but it has already written to the New Juaben Municipal Police Command to extend their night patrols to the hospital area since because of its location, fencing has been difficult to help check unauthorised movements.
Mr. Asamoah said some staff members at the hospital have been ordered to wear their Identification Tags to help distinguish them from persons who pretend to be staff at the hospital.
He urged patients of the hospital to be rest assured of their full security when they seek healthcare at the facility. No arrest has so far been made.
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