Brand new mother dies in Ambulance as husband’s inability to cover fuel delays her move to Korle Bu

: Advertisement -Sad news as being a 31-year-old woman named Augustina Awortwe has lost the girl life in an ambulance right after undergoing a caesarean program at the Holy Child Catholic Hospital in Fijai. This particular unfortunate tragedy was recorded right after her husband’s inability in order to fuel the ambulance on the hospital to transport her towards the Korle Bu Teaching medical center in Accra. As documented by Starr News, the particular husband of the deceased, Ruben Obiri-Yeboah narrating the event indicated that his spouse had reported to the medical center on January 3 seeking to give birth on Wednesday, January 4, 2022. This individual said after leaving their wife in the care of the girl sister at the hospital he or she left for his home at Shama Junction. Based on Mr. Obiri-Yeboah, “I had been there when the sister known as that my wife’s circumstance had become critical and so they were preparing to transfer the girl to Korle-Bu, so I has been surprised, a few minutes later I actually received a call, I believe it was the Ambulance Support team asking where I had been and I told them I used to be at Shama Junction, that they asked me to wait plus later picked me”. This individual said after joining the particular ambulance en route to Korle-Bu, on reaching Assorkor Essaman ”they asked for 600 cedis to purchase fuel, and I told all of them I don’t have such an quantity on me. ”He mentioned he suggested to the ambulance team to cater for the particular refuelling of the vehicle plus later add the cost towards the medical bill. He said the particular team refused and had to prevent the ambulance for a while on Assorkor Essaman, but this individual later managed to provide all of them 50 cedis which they utilized to purchase fuel. However , rather than continuing the journey in order to Korle-Bu, they returned towards the hospital at Fijai. Mister. Obiri Yeboah said because they returned to Fijai the particular medical team could not discover why the ambulance had came back which became an argument between medical team and the ambulance team, but later a healthcare facility provided the money to purchase the particular fuel. This he mentioned delayed the journey intended for close to thirty minutes until these people finally set off for Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra at around 6pm Wednesday evening. He says while on the particular journey, as they reached Elmina in the Central Region, the particular team informed him that will his wife’s condition has been becoming critical that required immediate medical intervention; then they suggested sending her towards the Cape Coast Teaching medical center. He says upon reaching the particular Cape Coast Teaching medical center, even before his wife might be sent in for the said healthcare intervention, one of the personnel from your ambulance team informed your pet that his wife experienced died. He is therefore blaming his wife’s demise generally on the delay by the ambulance team and is prepared to look for legal redress. Meanwhile, whenever contacted on phone to find out what had happened in the Holy Child Catholic Medical center, the hospital’s administrator Deborah Ayeley explained they cannot reveal any information about the incident in order to Empire News due to the Patients’ Charter. She said such request must be a law enforcement request. The Regional Boss of the Ghana Ambulance Company is however denying that this death was caused by a proposed delay due to a demand for cash to refuel the ambulance. Explaining to Empire News in the phone conversation, Frank Bafo Manu explained that when the distress call came from the particular Holy. Get Ghana Most recent News in your inbox every morning. Subscribe

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