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The Health Minister has, therefore, directed that the affected staff should be reported to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the police and the Attorney General.
This follows the conclusion of investigations by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) into the incident, which concluded that the employees identified as having contributed to the planning, and evacuation of the patient from the hospital to Gomoa Ojobi in the Central Region, where she was was abandoned until her death, “did not act appropriately.”
The said staff are six in number and they were involved in the discharge of the patient.
They are the Deputy Director of Nursing in charge of the hospital who spearheaded the arrangements to get the patient out of the hospital without adherence to proper discharge protocol, Eric Kwaku Arhinful the physician assistant who certified manually that the patient was mentally stable and proceeded with discharge without recourse to protocol and Michael Peprah the transport officer who arranged for hospital ambulance, a stand-in driver and fuel for the patient to be taken away.
The others are Evans Odae Acheampong, the Principal Hospital Orderly, who drove the ambulance conveying the patient from the Trauma Hospital to Ojobi upon the instructions of the transport officer, Dr George Prah, the Medical Director who authorised the release of the ambulance even though the committee did not find any evidence to confirm that he had full knowledge of who was to be taken out of the hospital and where he/she was to be taken to and Kwame Asante Baidoo the social worker who led the team to the point where the patient was abandoned.
The others are Evans Odae Acheampong, the Principal Hospital Orderly, who drove the ambulance conveying the patient from the Trauma Hospital to Ojobi upon the instructions of the transport officer, Dr George Prah, the Medical Director who authorised the release of the ambulance even though the committee did not find any evidence to confirm that he had full knowledge of who was to be taken out of the hospital and where he/she was to be taken to and Kwame Asante Baidoo the social worker who led the team to the point where the patient was abandoned.
The committee also established that she was not a native of Gomoa Ojobi or was living in the area.
The first time the community members saw her was the day they found her lying in a gutter with injuries and she was first taken to the Ojobi Health Centre with the help of the Assembly Member for the area.
The Gomoa East District Social Welfare officer who was not at the scene per the findings of the committee communicated with the colleague at the Trauma hospital in Winneba and they then arranged for the ambulance to transport the injured person to the Trauma hospital in Winneba with the Gomoa East District Social Welfare Officer providing GH¢300 from her personal resources to aid the transportation, which was paid to the National Ambulance Service staff, even though no receipt was issued for that payment.
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