Teenager dies whilst "doctors ate lunch"
Another disturbing scandal has hit the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The lenses of e.tv Ghana news chanced upon a mother who lost her son at the Hospital on Boxing Day, December 26, 2011.
According to her, the doctors on duty at the time her 19-year old son died watched on as he supped his last breath because the doctors were too hungry to provide any help.
The teenager whose motorbike collided head-on with a taxi cab on Boxing Day when he took a turn after filling his petrol tank was left to fight for his life after the hospital authorities denied him neither care nor attention.
The accident was not the issue for the family of the young man - they were eager to save him. But on arrival at the Korle Bu Teaching hospital their hopes began to fade.
Doctors on duty at the accident centre of the hospital claimed they were too hungry and would only attend to the critically injured teenager, only when they had finished eating.
The doctors finally finished their meals after four hours during which the obvious had happened; the boy had kicked the bucket.
At various hospitals in the country, relatives of sick people are seen discussing their frustration over the manner in which Doctors are handling very delicate situations.
Yet these are health professionals who rise against the state at the least discomfort and demand the highest of salaries. The health sector receives some of the highest salary payments today due to the numerous pressures they exert on government for such increases.
In October Ghanaian doctors who are already on very good salaries laid down their tools because on-going negotiations with government for migration onto the Single Spine Pay Structure was too slow for them. They then created a diversion for patients to go to their private hospitals for treatment while state managed health care systems crumbled.
So until someone takes a bold step to sanitize the system, innocent people will continue to join their ancestors, earlier that destiny holds for them.
By: e.tv Ghana
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