A 32-year-old patient who was neglected by his neglected by his kinsmen while in hospital hatched a trick, which worked to perfection. Mr. Kudzoe Goka was sent to the clinic on the 15th of January requiring emergency surgery.
Two family members who brought Mr. Goka could only pay 5000 cedis and promised that they were going home to find more money. They returned on the third day with an amount of 80,000 cedis out of the 450,000 cedis charged for the surgery, drugs and after care.
When his relatives were not forthcoming, Mr. Goka advised the management of the clinic to send a message home that he was dead, to elicit a quick response. Just after they received the message the family rushed to pay 300,000 cedis being medical bills in preparation to receive the corpse. And on the first of February a family delegation drumming and weeping came with a coffin and amount of 230,000 cedis being the mortuary fees and the remaining medical bills to collect the corpse.
News agency sources say when the delegation from Adaklu Sikaman in the Ho district got to the clinic they were shocked to see their relative who was supposed to be dead from strangulated hernia, alive. According to the proprietor of the clinic Dr. A. K. Takyi the incident is the second at the clinic and appealed to relatives of the sick and needy not to abandon such people to their fate only to mobilise resources later to celebrate their death.
