The Police have sent off an examination concerning a supposed assault on the staff of the Suhum Government Medical clinic by relatives of a departed individual.
The occurrence which apparently occurred at the medical clinic’s crisis ward on Wednesday, June 26, saw some wellbeing experts truly attacked with sliding windows.
As per sources, the departed who has been recognized as a 29-year-old digger was engaged with a mishap on Wednesday around the Top Oil fuel station in Suhum in the Eastern district while he was getting back from Accra to Anyinam.
He was subsequently hurried to the Suhum Medical clinic for therapy yet later passed on while on affirmation.
The family of the deceased subsequently accused the staff of the hospital of negligence and failing to refer him to the Eastern Regional Hospital for further treatment.
They informed some friends of the deceased who later stormed the facility to physically assault the nurses on duty.
It took the timely intervention from police personnel from the district command to prevent the situation from escalating and also restore calm.
“I was at the barbering salon when I had a call that our friend had gotten an accident so I went with the barber. When we got there, they were about to send him to the X-ray department. He could even talk and was very happy when he saw me. We were even communicating while taking the scan.
“So after the X-ray, the nurse in charge called us that the situation was serious and all his thighs were broken. He referred us to someone in Kumasi who could help him.”
“They sent him to emergency and asked me to get a card for him before they could give him medication. When I went for the card, there was a network issue so I had to wait. They later gave him the medication while I waited to get the card.
“The person I went with called me that they had put oxygen on him because he could barely breathe. They told me they would refer him so they called the ambulance. His father and brother came and I went to the police station with his brother. We were at the police station when we had a call that the guy had passed on,” a family member explained to the media.
The incident Channel One News understands has left staff of the hospital traumatized. A security personnel at the hospital who witnessed the incident told the media that the deceased friends and family attacked staff indiscriminately.
“When I came on duty, they said he was injured so I went to even check up on him and he was already dead. So they called the mortuary man while his people were here mourning. Immediately I saw a pick-up car and two gentlemen got down.
“One started addressing the journalist and one also entered the hospital. The family entered the hospital and started attacking the nurses while destroying items. It took the intervention of the reinforcement team to address the situation.”
