Take legal action over 'No Bed Syndrome' deaths – Dr Nawaane urges families

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• Nkeaaaa 19 hours ago

  The problem is that our public facilities are overwhelmed. The few private ones with the capacity to manage acute emergencies charge prohibitively. In any case, our penchant to run to the Korle Bu, 37 and the likes isn't hel ...
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  The problem is that our public facilities are overwhelmed. The few private ones with the capacity to manage acute emergencies charge prohibitively. In any case, our penchant to run to the Korle Bu, 37 and the likes isn't helping matters. Patients with acute emergencies need to be stabilised at the nearest facilities first. Every doctor is trained to stabilise acutely emergent patients till they can be safely referred to higher facilities.
  Mr MP, come down from your high horse so you can see the deficiencies in our system clearly. The facilities and doctors will not suddenly become captain planet to manage patients. The situation that led to this unfortunate death existed before and will exist after the death. The solution is not at the court, arrogant man.

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• Kwame King 8 hours ago

  My brother, just sponsor a private citizen bill to criminalize that act. We talk too much leaving the necessary action to solve the problem. Are not just idiots.?

  My brother, just sponsor a private citizen bill to criminalize that act. We talk too much leaving the necessary action to solve the problem. Are not just idiots.?

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• Kwadwo 18 hours ago

  But where are these creatures posing as doctors and nurses in our hospitals trained? I blame the institutions that purportedly train them. Their offensive and damn-right inhuman approach to tending to vulnerable sick people d ...
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  But where are these creatures posing as doctors and nurses in our hospitals trained? I blame the institutions that purportedly train them. Their offensive and damn-right inhuman approach to tending to vulnerable sick people defies all known theories of medical practice and even common people to people care. One would think that every "normal" human being would be inclined to help or at the very least, show some concern for other human beings in health distress. But no! Not these people.
  
  The other day, it was a whole Secretary of nurses association of Ghana, threatening journalists that "they will see" when they visit the hospital. In other words, they the nurses will medically harm or injure them in retribution when they visit any hospital when they are sick. And such a criminal psychopath is still at post as the Secretary of the Nurses Ass. of Ghana.
  
  This evening on TV3 news, there was another one of such people - a woman by the name of Dr Agbodja or some name like that who was trying to defend the incompetent medical personnel who in sensitively chose to look on whilst Charles Amissah died slowly. Her sick excuse was that administrative and equipment challenges prevent medical personnel from giving off their best. If that is the case, then they should all resign and sit at home instead of robbing the Treasury under the guise and pretense of taking salaries at the end of each month. And the cheek of it all is that they periodically resort to blackmailing govt for higher salaries.
  
  Just a couple of years ago a 70 year old man was similarly mistreated and he also died. These are just two instances that caught the eye of the media but I can bet that on a daily basis there are scores of such instances that quietly cause many unexpected deaths in our so-called hospitals where they cannot even provide patients on admission with common potable water.
  
  Can we fault Trump for describing African countries as shit-hole countries? And this is 2026. Lord have mercy.

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• Truth 14 hours ago

  You're right in pointing out all these examples. Unfortunately, we don't understand how systems is supposed to function, and because of that, the politicians have hijacked all the systems, including health. In a well function ...
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  You're right in pointing out all these examples. Unfortunately, we don't understand how systems is supposed to function, and because of that, the politicians have hijacked all the systems, including health. In a well functioning system, healthcare workers don't decide how to behave, they fit into a system with enforced policies. Even though it's tempting to compare Ghana to USA when things go wrong, you need to also compare the systems. I'll give you a single example. Whereas WHO states that a doctor shouldn't attend to more than 15 patient in a day and you can't just attend OPD in advance countries without appointments, it's not so in Ghana. A doctor attends to sometimes 40 patients in a day...the moment he turns X patient away, everyone starts shouting. The resources are overstretched, human resources included. So you tell me, how realistic is it to be caring for a patient who is unconscious on the floor? From setting IV lines to running infusions to suturing his wounds etc, is the doctor going to squat or sit on the floor? Yet, in a knee jerk response, they bypassed a system a issued a policy which is incompatible with the reality. So yes you're right to denigrate health workers but it's work knowing that systems are not created by the health workers but the politicians, who at a whim can pick a health minister he doesn't even understand health system because he did law and statistics... I expect another know jerk policy.

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• Akiti 10 hours ago

  My friend, wake up. We live in an underdeveloped country where we all have to do more than is normally expected in our various economic endeavors to keep body and soul together. For hospitals of all places to casually reject ...
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  My friend, wake up. We live in an underdeveloped country where we all have to do more than is normally expected in our various economic endeavors to keep body and soul together. For hospitals of all places to casually reject a dying man and watch him die, shows that we have hit rock bottom as a nation. Are you not aware that many Ghanaians have now resorted to self medication and all manner of alternative medicine because they have completely lost confidence in our hospitals and doctors? And for your information, doctors are not trained to manage hospitals and health systems and that is why almost all doctors who have managed our hospitals and health systems have failed to live up to expectation. The current health minister who is not a doctor but has worked in the health management sector for a long time is doing well and must be encouraged not undermined with petty political insinuations.

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• Akosat 18 hours ago

  Doctor, please oooo.... when an emergency ward or Unit is full and just in case all the clients on admission aren't stable, to be transferred to the medical osr surgical units, how can the patient be stabilized ?

  Doctor, please oooo.... when an emergency ward or Unit is full and just in case all the clients on admission aren't stable, to be transferred to the medical osr surgical units, how can the patient be stabilized ?

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• Hahahahha 17 hours ago

  You can stabilize this patient on the floor, prop em arrest bleeding, resuscitate, the the minor few so the patient doesn’t bleed out or choke to death. Ghanaians are not fools, if the relative sees that the ward was full b ...
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  You can stabilize this patient on the floor, prop em arrest bleeding, resuscitate, the the minor few so the patient doesn’t bleed out or choke to death. Ghanaians are not fools, if the relative sees that the ward was full but you still stabilized and referred even if the person passes on they accept that some gave it their shot. We like book long too much, yet the money dieeer we no Dey take play.

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• Hahahahha 17 hours ago

  And this man paaaa is talking about training specialists hahahaha, they just as usual looking for chop chop. How many specialists will be at the ER for a case like this? They’re busy with their own clinics. Kindly train mor ...
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  And this man paaaa is talking about training specialists hahahaha, they just as usual looking for chop chop. How many specialists will be at the ER for a case like this? They’re busy with their own clinics. Kindly train more DRs the number is too few considering the rising population.

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• Akosat 17 hours ago

  Talking about extensive resuscitation, not "Red Cross/ first Aid resuscitation. That was a nice submission though

  Talking about extensive resuscitation, not "Red Cross/ first Aid resuscitation. That was a nice submission though

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• Nkeaaaa 13 hours ago

  Sorry but you make no iota of a sense. So you stabilised Charles on the floor like your exc3ll3nt brain is saying. But before Charles came, Kwame, Esi, Mamuna, Agoji, Apapa, Paul, Lilliput, Lupita have all come in and were ad ...
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  Sorry but you make no iota of a sense. So you stabilised Charles on the floor like your exc3ll3nt brain is saying. But before Charles came, Kwame, Esi, Mamuna, Agoji, Apapa, Paul, Lilliput, Lupita have all come in and were admitted on the floor for stabilisation. Meanwhile, Oko, Maame Ama, Arabia, Fiifi, Enyonam, Nyameke and others are all on their way and will all need stabilisation. Can you picture how the hospital will look like and what things like you will post about these patients being "stabilised" on the floor?
  Please behave like humans for once. Truth comes before mercy. Without truth there will be no mercy. Even in America, Japan, Singapore and the likes, patients are turned away when hospitals are full. In all these countries, seeing even GP takes months but in the country called Ghana full of loud mouthed, arrogant, brainless, semi-literate hypocrites like you, people pick their cards at night to go see the doctor with skin conditions and are attended to, yet we don't appreciate the people who do these for us. I understand, we all envy them like you said "salary". If you and I had joined them, they would have had more hands to work.
  When Charles was turned away by Korle Bu, 37 and the likes, were the Lekma, Police Hospital, Bank of Ghana Hospital, Maritime association hospital and the others closed? Did those hospital turn him away too. Tiny brains maintain tunnel vision forgetting that thinking lateral increase the scope of the solution. Stabilisation can be done at all the hospitals. If its a specialty they don't have, the patient could be transferred in a stable state when a bed became available. In any case, it wasn't cows or boxes that were occupying the beds.
  
  The truth is that there are many hospitals and clinics in Accra. Everyone of them sees many patients everyday even when the Korle Bu and the likes are open. Why is it that when there is a so called "emergency", we stop thinking and only see Korle Bu?
  Charles death is regrettable but let us ask thosee who sent him to the hospitals that turned him away because they did not have bed space, are these the only hospitals they've ever heard off?

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• Akiti 9 hours ago

  @ Nkeaaa. You exemplify the adage that a little learning is dangerous. Trying to cover up for gross criminal incompetence leading to the death of another human being in a hospital, can only come from an evil mind. Even in man ...
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  @ Nkeaaa. You exemplify the adage that a little learning is dangerous. Trying to cover up for gross criminal incompetence leading to the death of another human being in a hospital, can only come from an evil mind. Even in many parts of the country where there are no hospitals, doctors, nurses or any kind of medical equipment and staff, ordinary uneducated villagers get together and use their wits and common sense to deal with adverse health issues when these arise.

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