The Accra Ridge Hospital is making waves once again as reports have confirmed that a patient at the hospital lost her life whiles receiving medication from the hospital.
It is the circumstances surrounding the death of this patient that has go a lot of people talking about service delivery in the hospital all over social and mainstream media.
According to Kuto Imma, the man who has unfortunately lost his wife at the hospital, his wife who was diagnosed of hernia and underwent operation there lost her life as a result of the wrong medication she was given.
This he reveals was confirmed by the doctor who was on duty at a time his wife was going through excruciating pains although it took him some time to find him.. Mr Kuto Imma says that upon the arrival of the doctor, his wife’s folder was examined and after confirming a particular medication the nurse had given to the patient, the doctor categorically said “But I didn’t describe that”.
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Mr. Imma’s narrative goes on to recount how the said doctor contacted another doctor that the nurse who administered the medication to his wife said had prescribed the treatment for her. Upon calling him, after an initial back and forth between the nurses and doctor on duty then, the doctor got in touch with his other colleague who had prescribed the medications which he said was not what he prescribed.
Upon confirming that he was the one who prescribed the medicine, Mr. Imma quotes after saying “Folks, I swear by my father’s grave that my wife’s doctor said something like this” that the doctor’s word were ““ I can’t believe you have done this again. This is the second time. This woman’s case is similar to the other one but you have done it again”.
He goes on to narrate; ” What happened next is the reason I am writing this. But for it I would never share this on social media. As our doctor was scolding the other doctor, they nurses were laughing heartily. Even the doctor was scolding his colleague somehow jokingly. Yes, my wife lay dying and the nurses were laughing that a doctor had apparently prescribed the wrong medication for her. I was not angry and I was not mad. I just felt cold. Very cold”.
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According to him a number of drugs were prescribed for him to buy which he did buy in addition to those his sister-in-law had bough earlier whiles she was earlier attending to his wife in the hospital.
Eventually, upon his return to the hospital the next day upon receiving a call that the doctors want to see him, he was informed his wife died, 11pm the previous day, only three hours after he had left.
Social media following this, has been brewing with many comments of people’s personal experiences with the same Ridge hospital which were highly distasteful.
Authorities of the hospital are yet to speak on the matter.
Mr. Kuto Imma’s wife left behind three children aged 16, 11 and 5 years.
Read his full narration here
