Hospital staff mourns nurse

The state of anxiety which griped the staff and patients of the Holy Family Hospital at Nkawkaw since Saturday, following the reported crash of the Air Force helicopter conveying two injured soldiers on the way to Accra, burst into uncontrollable wailing when it was confirmed that Mr Victor Du Nark, the nurse of the hospital, who accompanied the patients died in the crash in the Atiwa Range near Key.

The wailing and sobbing began when a delegation of the staff, who went to Sagyimase, to verify the situation returned to confirm the death of Adu Nyarko, on Monday night.

The late Adu Nyarko was a 35-year-old graduate nurse who joined the hospital after graduation five years ago. He hailed from Apirade-Akuapem but born and bred at New Tafo-Akyem. He won the 2001 Best Male Nurse award of the hospital.

A GNA report reports Mrs Florence Lotsu, Assistant Matron of the hospital who led the delegation as describing Adu Nyarko as hardworking, respectful and jovial towards colleagues, saying, "patients in his ward had been crying ever since they heard of the crash on Saturday."

According to many of the staff and patients, they were anxiously waiting to give the late Adu Nyarko a fitting burial when the body is released by the military authorities.