The driver with the National Ambulance Service in the Eastern Region who was shot by some suspected armed robbers in the eye is dead.
Abraham Tetteh died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra on Saturday, February 6, 2021, the Eastern Regional Administrative Manager for the National Ambulance Service, Michael Gaani confirmed the incident in a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM.
He was left unconscious after eight suspected armed robbers shot him and extorted monies from the staff at Asesseso in the Eastern Region.
The staff were transferring a woman who was in labour and her relative from the Akuse Government Hospital to the Koforidua Regional Hospital when the unfortunate incident occurred.
The driver was transferred to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on life support at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the facility.
He, however, passed on at 4:15 am on the dawn of Saturday, February 6, 2021.
“So the whole of yesterday, the CEO, myself, and other personnel were with him and the family at the ICU at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital. My deputy and I were the last to leave the hospital. As of the time, we were leaving, the doctors discussed with us about recovery, and we are expecting much improvement, but that wasn’t meant to be. This morning, the first person to get there was an officer who called me and confirmed to me that our colleague had passed on to glory”, he said.
Some of the deceased’s work colleagues have been sharing fond memories of him.
Some suspected armed robbers on Thursday attacked an ambulance that was transporting a pregnant woman who was in labour in the Eastern Region.
The attack left the driver of the ambulance badly injured with a gunshot wound. The bullet hit his head and affected the eye.
It took the intervention of one other passenger in another vehicle, which had earlier been also attacked by the robbers, to drive the ambulance to the Tetteh Quarshie Hospital l at Akuapim Mampong for the driver to be resuscitated and later referred to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra for further management.
The pregnant woman with the assistance of the EMT on board gave birth in the ambulance whilst the "good Samaritan" was driving the ambulance towards the Tetteh Quarshie Hospital.
She was later transferred to the Koforidua Government Hospital.
The incident traumatized the EMT onboard the ambulance. She later received counselling at Korle Bu and has since been discharged.
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