Image showing victim's arm where cannula was left
A middle-aged woman, Philomina Asieduwaa, became a victim of medical negligence when a cannula was left in her veins after undergoing a surgical procedure to deliver her baby.
In a report by JoyNews, the new mother who gave birth at the Mamobi General Hospital in Accra a week ago is now experiencing pain in her left arm due to a cannula that was left in her vein.
According to the victim, her desperate pleas for the hospital to take responsibility proved futile, as the hospital informed her to bear the costs herself after referring her to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for surgery.
“I came to give birth at the Mamobi Hospital but had a caesarean section. After the operation, just before I was discharged, I discovered that the cannula was broken in my vein. I was given a referral letter to Korle-Bu but the doctors there informed me that the procedure wasn’t free. It will typically charge GH¢1000 but agreed to take GH¢600 from Mamobi Hospital. When I returned to Mamobi, they told me to borrow money for the surgery but I didn’t have any. I explained that I had no one to turn to for help,” she told JoyNews.
The hospital after several confrontations and interventions by the victim’s church members, agreed to bear the cost of the procedure to be done at Korle-Bu.
Meanwhile, the hospital has begun internal investigations into the issue.
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