Appiatse Explosion: Victim allegedly pays over GH¢11k hospital bills despite Bawumia’s promise

A sufferer of the Appiatse explosion has complained of paying over GH¢11,000 medical payments regardless of a promise by the Vice President that authorities will take in all the prices.

The sufferer, Samuel Cudjoe, a workers of Zondatech Ghana Restricted, was travelling to Wassa Akropong when the explosion occurred. He sustained critical accidents and wanted pressing surgical procedure to save lots of his state of affairs.

A colleague of his who has been helping him on the hospital, Theophilus Nartey, complains of how they’re being made to pay monies on the two well being amenities they’ve been to – the Tarkwa Authorities Hospital and the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital – earlier than the sufferer shall be attended to.

He disclosed to the host of Join FM’s Omanbapa morning present Nyhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson on Wednesday, January 26 that regardless of the promise made by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, they’re being requested to pay the medical payments.

Theophilus Nartey mentioned his colleague was initially admitted on the Tarkwa Authorities Hospital earlier than being transferred to the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital.

“We had been transferred from Tarkwa to the Effia Nkwanta Hospital a day after the catastrophe. We had been requested to rent a non-public ambulance from the Tarkwa Authorities Hospital the place we paid over GH¢2,200 for the motive force and nurse who accompanied us.

This was as a result of there was no ambulance accessible. At Effia Nkwanta too, we had been made to pay for some providers. In all, now we have spent about GH¢11,000 on medical payments. However we thought the Vice President mentioned it was free,” he lamented.

In response, the Public Relations Officer for the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Christian Baidoo, expressed remorse in regards to the improvement.

He indicated that the hospital is poised to making sure the directive of the Vice President is adhered to and if any sufferer has paid any cash to the hospital, it will likely be refunded.

He added that among the victims from the catastrophe within the hospital haven’t paid any cash and it’s the coverage of the power to care for any affected person earlier than payments are offered.

“It’s the coverage of our hospital to care for any affected person earlier than we situation them payments. We’ve got three victims from the Appiatse catastrophe on the facility and I can inform you a few of them have been handled with out taking any monies from them.

We’ve got taken discover of the case of Theophilus and the hospital shall refund each cash he has paid if he can produce the receipts. Investigations have additionally been launched into the difficulty,” Christian Baidoo promised.

In the meantime, checks at different medical amenities the place victims of the catastrophe had been admitted point out that almost all of them have been paying their medical payments.

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