There is anger among residents in Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region following the death of a health worker at the Tease Presbyterian Health Center.
The deceased, Linus Lang-yin a disease control officer attached to the Health Center died Thursday, April 2, 2020, after he collapsed while attending to his friend Felix Beringia-a staff at the Department of Planning at the Afram Plains South District Assembly who was in critical condition after he was involved in a motorbike accident at night.
Mybrytfmonline.com has gathered that the Afram Plains South District Ambulance service which is just a stone throw from the Health Center failed to respond to distress calls to take the two to the Donkokrom Presbyterian Hospital.
It has to take many hours for the Afram Plains North Ambulance Service to intervene by which time the health worker was dead.
Meanwhile, the accident victim who was taken to Donkokrom Presbyterian Hospital is responding to treatment.
The incident has sparked outrage in Afram Plains District. A group calling itself, Afram Plains Concerned Citizens has issued a statement Monday, April 6, 2020, blaming the death of the Health worker to failure by the Afram Plains South District Ambulance Service to attend to the distress call to convey the two to Donkokrom Presbyterian Hospital in due time.
“The nurse on duty called for the ambulance parked at the district assembly to move his friend who was almost unconscious to Donkorkrom Presbyterian Hospital but the operators of the ambulance were nowhere to be found, they had to call the Donkorkrom District Ambulance and that took them more than three (3) hours and out of frustration his friend Nurse on duty BP rose cand collapsed yet the ambulance was still not in since it has to come from Donkorkrom which is far and because of the bad nature of the road it took a very long time for them to get to the clinic and the nurse couldn’t survive “.
The group added that “this is not the first time issue of this nature has occurred since the ambulance came to the district we don’t understand why we have our ambulance parked at the district assembly while we have a DCE and other management members but we have to always resort to the ambulance at Donkorkrom for emergency situations we are therefore, by this release asking the following legitimate questions.”
However, managers of the Ambulance Service in the District have explained, that the Ambulance had no spare tyre after bursting one tyre last week, therefore, it was not ideal to embark on such a long journey without spare tyre reason it couldn’t respond to the situation.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
