Afranie Responding to Treatment

Coach Emmanuel Kwesi Afranie, Technical Director of the Ministry of Youth and Sports who survived a terrible accident at Peki in the Volta Region a fortnight ago is responding well to treatment and likely to be discharged sometime next week.

When GNA Sports team visited the coach at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after his brief admission at the Trust Hospital in Osu, the five stitches on his chin had been removed but his right hand was still in plaster of Paris (POP).

The accident occurred when the saloon car in which the coach together with his driver were travelling from Kpando to Accra after a football match skidded off the road after three of the tyres burst and the car plunged into a sand-filled ditch.

They were rescued and sent to the Peki Government Hospital for first aid treatment and later transferred to the Trust Hospital at Osu.

The coach commended the team of doctors including Henry Holbrook Smith, Chief Executive of Korle Bu and nurses who have been working round the clock to ensure his survival.

Coach Afranie has received a lot of visitors at the hospital including, Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor, Minister of Defence, Nana Sam Brew-Butler, former Chairman of the Ghana Football Association, Mr Joe Aggery, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports and other officials from the ministry.

He praised the media for their reportage on the accident.