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Woman dies as ambulance driver deserts post at 37 Hospital

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  • Raila Odinga 9 years ago

    How in a hell can this happen?Where is the sense of calling for a health worker like an ambulance driver ? I tell you, our country is fucked up... a chaotic society with no law and order..

  • United Ghana 9 years ago

    True, the country's f**ked up, a reflection of the f**ked up, useless govt we have

  • FUNNY THAT 9 years ago

    Not the country is fucked up but the Ghanaians themselves both in Abroad or elswhere are fucked up. Ghanaians lack the sense of intergrity, patriotic presense,but drowned only in money making by false means, corruption,carel ...
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  • Only a few good people in Ghana 9 years ago

    Na, it is not politics that is F**ked up it is the Ghanaian mentality of wanting to be rich at all cost, and lack patriotism and fellow feeling, very wicked and careless, crying for work, but would not work when employed. Alw ...
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  • OKOROMANSA 9 years ago

    WHAT ARE THE FULL DETAILS OF THIS CASE? WAS THE DRIVER SUPPOSED TO BE AT WORK THAT DAY OR WHAAT? WAS HE OFF DUTY, BUT CALLED TO ASSIST, OR HE WAS AT POST, BUT CHOSE TO GO TO THE EASTER PARTY WHEN HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DRIVE A PA ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    And if I may add, when did they notice he was not at post?

  • Yiddana 9 years ago

    What is the family waiting for? Sue the hospital and name the driver as co-defendant. This will ensure effective supervision and lead to proper accountability.This was someones mother and daughter to her parents, above all ne ...
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  • JAMES BASSA 9 years ago

    YOU SEE YOUR END NII MOI TOMPSON

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Nii Moi Thompson needs to use some commonsense. If there is negligence, deal with that. The person was not employed because he is a Christian neither does he receive any allowance for that. Deal with the substantive issue and ...
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  • Theophilus -USA 9 years ago

    Thank you. Being religious necessary have to be a Christian, could any body and I wonder why he singled out Christians.

  • kb 9 years ago

    It is convenient to single out Christians. There would have been a backlash if it had been other religions mentioned.This is discrimination!

  • Dee Kay 9 years ago

    Was the driver employed by a church or christian council. He should attack the supervisors of the unit and stop making those lazy excuses.

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    What's National Development Planning Commission interest in this case? I smell a rat.

  • ADAMU 9 years ago

    That's a good question. Why not MOH? Is the deceased a relative of the chairman of NDPC? Is there only one driver? There's more to this.

  • HASSAN, Tamale 9 years ago

    Yes. Why NDPC? Is Nii Moi a family member, relation or friend of the deceased? Is he interested in this case as an individual or in his official capacity as Chair of the NDPC? If it is the former then the writer is wrong in b ...
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  • Yhfg 9 years ago

    Is Nii moi aware of the number of women who lose their lives in deprived areas?

  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 9 years ago

    Negligence causing death? Infact,.If most.of.these.monkey.idiots were in the whiteman country. They will be rotting in jail!

  • yapo 9 years ago

    something is funny here,so this hospital won't to tell us that they have only one amulance driver for the whole big hospital like this? hmmmmmmmm asem ooooooo mother ghana wake up?

  • yapo 9 years ago

    nobody should blame the driver, before you know, he didn't got his pay for two years now?

  • jayjay 9 years ago

    the government ambulances in Ghana are managed by the National Ambulance service. they are only positioned in the hospital for proximity but do not belong to the hospitals. if this case is true, it is the national ambulance s ...
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  • penpenaaa-usa 9 years ago

    That hospital is full of " shit".sometimes I doubt if they are there to serve the people or have different agenda. Patients with prostate issues who go there for treatment are not spared. They use to buy what is called cathec ...
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  • Kofi issah 9 years ago

    Doctors do not need your money. The ones the patients were bring were probably not up to standard, and they needed to ensure that the right ones are used, moreover these hospitals hardly order the correct consumables. They im ...
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  • jim 9 years ago

    Late President Mills died because the ambulance could not get quick enough to the hospital. A lady is dead because there was nobody qualified to operate an ambulance, an ordinary pick-up van in a country with 33+ universities ...
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  • Haruna 9 years ago

    You people claim you deserve all the monies in this world you see that even zoomlion too is important they deserve less monthly paid. Do you people regards an Ambulance people at all now he kills

  • Burnsomeone 9 years ago

    It's very painful to lose live in the situation in which it occurred. But Dr Thompson; you are just a Dr. and JHS pupils can be awarded your Dr after their terminal exams . Your analytical brain is poor . What does christian ...
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  • Haruna 9 years ago

    When we send patients t? hospitals they refused t? accept the d patients, that one do they think abt the complication? They thinked they can be there asking unanswerable questions

  • joe 9 years ago

    THIS CHRISTIANS ARE IDIOTS, FAKE RELIGION ,NOISE MAKERS,WHITEMAN RELIGION ALL THE STORIES IN THEIR BIBLE IS BEING FORMED BY WHITEMAN.I NOW KNOW THE TRUTH RELIGION THAT IS CONVERT TO MUSLIM

  • an3lka 9 years ago

    stop worshipping the sun n killing innocent ppl.

  • Burnsomeone 9 years ago

    It's very painful to lose live in the situation in which it occurred. But Dr Thompson; you are just a Dr. JHS pupils can be awarded your Dr after their terminal exams . Your analytical brain is poor . What does christianity ...
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  • Gangstalicious 9 years ago

    So are we supposed to believe that there is only one ambulance driver on duty at the entire hospital at a given time? This is BS. Isn't 37 supposed to be one if the best in the country. Oh Ghana. Our priorities are screwed up ...
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  • dy-ana 9 years ago

    LET US KNOW THE DEAD PERSON, THE FAMILY BEFORE WE CAN COMMENT ARE RICH POOR OR ELITE IN SOCIETY

  • Nii Lartey Nartey. 9 years ago

    Ghana we knew is completed gone and gone. The whole military hospital has no more strict ethics and command at to work? Ghanaian workers have become power unto themselves and do what ever pleases them, time to report to work ...
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  • Frank Ben 9 years ago

    Obuasi Municipal Assembly ambulance was on Sunday, 19 April 2015 around 3:30 pm was parked at Awnomaso in Kumasi. I was worried that because officials don't know the importance of Ambulances. But are these drivers given job ...
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  • tb 9 years ago

    most ghanaians r so lazy n hypocrites all in d name of religious activities. even working hours people r holding prayer meetings. why wld nt dey b poor. we go to work late, take long breaks n close early. lazy abt @ workplace ...
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  • an3lka 9 years ago

    let sleeping dogs lie. when our time comes nothing can stop us from death.

  • The learned one 9 years ago

    So the 37 Hospital is telling us they don't have anybody who could drive the lady to next hospital and the looked on for her to die? Huh! We behave in this country like robots. The poor are becoming more vulnerable in Ghana.
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  • Jack Jack 9 years ago

    Hmmmmmmm my sister also died last Saturday at Amasiama Hospital because the Ambulance they have there tyre got punch and there is no Ambulance to take her to Ridge Hospital or korlebu and she suffer suffer and died. Secondly ...
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  • jack 9 years ago

    This is supposed to be the last stop hospital for the nation. The administration lack leadership skills and ability to supervise staff. Government is just wasting money on this military hospital

  • GOODMAN 9 years ago

    I don't think this is a case of medical negligence mr. writer. Ambulance dirvers are mostly non-clinicians. The man deserted post, he did not commit any medical error. Look for the proper term. It is rather negligence of duty ...
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  • showlights 9 years ago

    what kind of stupid excuse is this.. the driver is the only one with driver license at that hospital.. That they dare to come out with this stupid excuse..

  • Boutros 9 years ago

    Nii moi why , was that day not a national holiday? if the woman was an ordinary farmer no comment but cus her family raise the issue then you blaming the driver you the cause not the driver.

  • KILL TEENAGER IN EFFIA NKWANTA 9 years ago

    That the health sector in Ghana is filthy corrupt,marred with indiscipline and illegalities is an understatement.This is just another good example to buttress the fact that the health sector is being let down by people at the ...
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  • ghana apr) atete 9 years ago

    dis a total negligence!! Dis case must be thoroughly investigated !!!

  • Godwin 9 years ago

    It is very disheartening to hear this in no other country than Ghana, where medical practitioners are always on the neck of the government demanding pay increment. The authorities must be held responsible for this negligence. ...
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  • Prosperity 9 years ago

    Christianity has nothing to do with this. Nii Moi i think u need to reaccess yourself and watch your words b'coz statements like this coming out of your filthy mouth is on the verge of causing either Religious battle or riots ...
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  • Agyarko koo 9 years ago

    As a country, we need complete overhauling. There's rot everywhere. The case needs to be investigated first and the appropriate punishment applied without favor.

  • abena-kwabena 9 years ago

    The country is not the land but the people that live on the land. They are not well educated and that is why they behave the way they do. They are all corrupt, in fact they are thieves from president to the man who cleans the ...
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  • Manny 9 years ago

    That place seriously needs complete restructuring from head to toe. Incompetence and gross disrespect for human life is good discretion of the place.

  • Manny 9 years ago

    That place seriously needs complete restructuring from head to toe. Incompetence and gross disrespect for human life is good description of that place.

  • sam 9 years ago

    This Dr Thompson should know better. He has to wait until the investigation is over.
    In Ghana, the way we address issues most times is not appropriate. Was it the system that failed or was it really the ambulance driver ?
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  • Douglas bristol uk 9 years ago

    u see this foolish ashantis drinking killing raping every where they Will never rule Ghana again

  • sallie 9 years ago

    If 37 military hospital is one of the leading hosp

  • sallie 9 years ago

    If 37 military hospital is one of the leading hospital in the country then God save Ghana. 37 military hospital is only leaving in its passed glory. 2.If you task somebody to work on a holiday,that person should be motivated ...
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  • obiba jk 9 years ago

    37 is fucked up as hell. do u know that more than 70% of those working there are not qualified?. if u think am telling lies conduct a secret investigations there and u will see the shit that happens there. i am a military per ...
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  • Kofi issah 9 years ago

    The article was about a lazy driver, what has this Got to do with doctors and nurses????

    And if 3 senior miliatry personel died so what? Are they immortal. If the death was not natural it would be investigated, so fuck off ...
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  • Arnold 9 years ago

    The country is not fuck up.the people fuck up big time.evey one thinks govt govt.we have to change our attitude towards work.many workers in Ghana not serious they mix pleasures with work.they have to set an example so peopl ...
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