37 CEO Exposes Govt, Castle

Over JEA Mills’ Health Detail

Regardless of the public ridicule that the Government and Castle Security detail exposed the whole nation to, the Commander of the 37 Military Hospital, Brigadier General Paul K. Kpornyo, has added salt to injury, stating that the former President, Professor JEA Mills, was driven to hospital in an ambulance accompanied by a professional team of doctors.

Though ordinary people, including boys and girls from Maamobi and Nima in Accra were treated to the ugly scene, which continued to draw more and more crowds until the body was received at the mortuary, the CEO also strangely swore that the former President was accompanied by two paediatricians and a doctor.

Paediatrician is just a term that describes a physician who deals with the growth, development and the health of children, from birth to adolescence. In other words, it is a doctor who specializes in childrens' illnesses. Some paediatricians become very specialized in particular diseases, others are more focused on general health and development.

The statement, whilst further exposing the Government and Castle Staffers to ridicule and ineptitude, forgot to check their files to know that JEA Mills was not a kid to be treated by a paediatrician, who professionally is the man to treat diseases related to children. Strangely, too, the “doctor: referred to in the statement was not given any professional tag- as regards whether he was a cardiologist or General Practitioner (GP).

In all the scenarios the CEO painted, not one picture of professional sanity and sincere truth could be adduced, particularly when Dr. Cadman Mills stated that the Professor died from a sudden stroke, which is a heart related disease, and which the doctors on his detail should have known long ago and made provisions for.

Dr. Kpornyo, we are told on authority, is an eye specialist who has been several times on President Mills’ health detail.

The Government must come clean on this matter rather than allow some official and unofficial statement from individual sources that helps aggravate the matter rather than help the national cause. This is because even laymen know that professionals supposed to handle Mills’ case are oncologists and geriatricians.

In the Daily Graphic edition of Thursday, September 13, 2012, the paper carried a story seeking to explain the circumstances under which the former President died, and painting the picture of an appropriate and professional medical detail for the former President.

Significantly, the Daily Graphic story was buried in the middle pages.