Scandal rocks Kyebi Hospital

Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that management of the Kyebi Government Hospital in the East Akim Municipality of the Eastern Region, is preventing the police from investigating a case involving two staff of the health facility who are alleged to have stolen two projectors worth GHc4,000.

They are Selom Owusu Ajasah, 33, a nurse and Sena Adjei, 48 a security man.

DAILY GUIDE gathered that one projector worth GHc2,000, belonging to the hospital, was stolen last year from the medical stores. Barely two weeks ago another one, reportedly owned by the Kyebi Municipal Health Director, was also stolen. The latest theft was said to have angered the director and so he mounted pressure on the management to help retrieve it.

Investigation conducted by this paper indicated that as the machine was being searched for, Selorm Ajasah reportedly told a matron that it was the security man who stole the first projector and gave it to him (Ajasah) to go and sell at Asamankese, but no one offered to buy it.

Selorm Ajasah and Sena Adjei were said to have been taken to the Kyebi Police Station together with one of the projectors last Friday where they were detained and granted police inquiry bail on Saturday.

The management, according to a source, had prevented the police from carrying out their duties as it had planned to withdraw the case from the police station and settle it internally.

A source stated that aside the projectors, there had been other items like gallons of diesel, stationery, infusions and drugs that had been stolen, but the management had been covering them up, thereby preventing the police from arresting and prosecuting the suspects.

DSP Emmanuel Issaka, the Kyebi Police Crime Officer, when contacted by DAILY GUIDE, confirmed that the hospital administrator and the medical superintendent last Friday brought the suspects with the projector to the station and were detained for stealing.

The crime officer hinted that the management on Saturday came to bail them. The police admitted that though there had been some interference in the case, they were investigating it and take the necessary action, adding that his outfit would not allow any internal settlement since the case is a criminal one.

Administrator’s Reaction

Freedie Dzisi told DAILY GUIDE that the police version was inaccurate. “Our item got missing and we have found it, so what has it got to do with the police to warrant investigation?” he queried. He said at first management suspected Selorm and Adjei, “but now we have found it and so what else do you want to know?”