Doctors andnurses at the Ridge Hospital reportedly refused to take in a critically injured
woman who had been brought to the facility for medical attention Sunday
evening.
The doctors and nurses allegedly refused to take care of the
woman, who was said to be bleeding profusely from the head, because they claim
the Hospital was not the right medical facility to bring her to.
This was
after the Hospital staff subsequently gave an excuse explaining that they
were all busy.
The good
samaritan who carried the injured woman to the Ridge Hospital gave her name
only as Mardey.
Recounting her harrowing experience at the government hospital,
Mardey explained that around 10:30 pm Sunday, she spotted the injured woman at
the Farrar Avenue in Adabraka in Accra.
A little crowd had gathered around the unconscious woman watching
her bleed.
Mardey said after inquiring about the cause of the poor woman’s
condition, she was told she was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver.
She first headed to the Adabraka Police Station to report the
incident and then returned to the accident scene where she met injured woman
still lying helpless.
According to Mardey, she then took the woman to the nearest
government hospital which is the Ridge Hospital hoping that the bleeding would
be stopped and a life saved.
Instead, she was traumatized by the treatment she received at the
government hospital.
Accident and Emergency Centre of the hospital |
Mardey, a business woman, said when she got the Accident andEmergency Centre of the hospital, she quickly rushed in to call a nurse but her
experience from that moment onwards will later cause her to break down and cry.
“We got there, I rushed in to go and tell a nurse that we got
somebody with massive head injuries; she is not conscious. The woman came, looked
at the injured woman and because I think she injured woman was not well dressed maybe she looked homeless, the the nurse
looked at the injured woman and went back in,” Mardey said.
She said the Ridge Hospital nurse did this even though the injured
woman was convulsing.
“They said they were busy”, Mardey said she was told after pushing
the medical personnel to attend to the unconscious woman.
She said the police later came to the Ridge Hospital and managed
to get a stretcher for the hit-and-run victim because the Ridge Hospital staff
would not even touch her.
“Nobody, nobody even the doctors, the nurses, they all refused to
touch her,” a distraught Mardey told the Super Morning Show host, Nhyira Addo.
She said the woman was still unconscious when she left the
hospital hours after she had brought her.
Meanwhile, Ridge Hospital Administrator, Emmanuel Taadi, says
events recounted by Mardey are higly unlikely.
He however, promised the hospital would look into the complaint.
Source: Joy
FM, Accra
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