The Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has urged the House to allow the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to conduct its investigations into the alleged abandonment of a patient in a bush at Gomoa Ojobi in the Central Region.
According to him, the GHS has already initiated investigations into the matter and it would be prudent for Parliament to await the outcome before taking any action.
Afenyo Markin’s plea comes after the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, called for a parliamentary probe into the incident, which resulted in the death of the patient.
“There is a matter that I was hit with on national television this morning, and I am sure the Majority Leader will be concerned because it happened in his constituency. It has been reported that doctors and nurses at the Winneba Government just threw out a patient who had an accident because they couldn’t locate her family.
“They just took her in an ambulance and went and dumped her in the bush and she died after three days.
“This is the height of inhumanity and Parliament should take an interest, and we have to summon the Health Minister, the Ghana Health Service, and the board and management of the Winneba Government Hospital.
“We have to conduct an urgent probe into this matter and this negligence, abuse of the 1992 Constitution, and the gross violation of the Hippocratic oath of our doctors cannot be accepted, ” Ablakwa said on the floor of Parliament.
Meanwhile, Afenyo-Markin has written to the management of the Trauma Hospital and Specialist Hospital in Winneba, demanding a detailed report on the incident.
Earlier Okudzeto Ablakwa expressed outrage and shock over the alleged abandonment of a patient suspected to be suffering from mental illness by the Trauma and Specialist Hospital in Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana in a conversation with Dr. Randy Abbey on Good Morning Ghana on Metro TV.
He described the incident as “unacceptable” and a “national disgrace.”
He vowed that Parliament would take up the matter and ensure those responsible are held accountable
By: Martin Kwabena Ahwireng | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana
