Korle-Bu failed me; doctors tried their best - Mother recounts ordeal of late 13-year-old son
- The mother of the deceased Michael Kofi Asiamah has recounted her ordeal when her son was on admission
- Cordelia Ama Selormey mentioned that her son had the best and experienced doctors anyone would wish for but the hospital failed her
- She said the neurological unit lacked certain equipment that was really essential to the unit and its absence was a contributing factor to the death of her son
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Many people have had bad experiences at the nation's premier teaching hospital, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for many years.
Recent events leading to the death of a 13-year-old boy who died of complications from brain surgery at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has brought attention to the hospital
The mother of the deceased Michael Kofi Asiamah affectionately called Kekeli by his mother, Cordelia Ama Selormey has recounted her ordeal when her son was on admission.
Michael met his untimely death on April 9, 2021, while receiving treatment after undergoing two successful surgeries to remove a brain tumor.
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Prior to his death, Michael became popular on social media as the kid who was a mad fan of Ghanaian rapper, Sarkodie, during the time funds were being raised for his second surgery.
Within 24 hours, Ghanaians donated generously to his cause to have his second tumour removed.
Fortunately but unfortunately, Michael went into surgery and came out successfully but died a few days after his surgery from complications.
Recounting the ordeal Cordelia and Michael went through at the neurology unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, she mentioned that her son had the best and experienced doctors anyone would wish for but the hospital failed her.
She said the neurological unit lacked certain equipment that was really essential to the unit and its absence was a contributing factor to the death of her son.
“I had absolute confidence in the doctors at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The doctors did not let us down, but the system did,” she lamented.
While narrating the heart-wrenching story on Accra-based Citi FM and how badly the unit was in dire need of some equipment, Cordelia said she is convinced the neurosurgical unit at Korle Bu is not a priority to any government.
Narrating her son's ordeal on tears and pain, she said all her son needed was a defibrillator to resuscitate his heart, but there was none in the unit.
She added that the only one the unit had was also under lock and key with the holder of the key nowhere to be found.
“Doctors spent close to 40minutes trying to resuscitate his heart manually because there was no defibrillator to use.”
Narrating further, she lamented the absence of beds at the Korle-Bu teaching hospital's Intensive Cre Unit(ICU).
She revealed that within 24 hours after her son's surgery, he was moved from the ICU bed because they had just four beds, to a regular bed, which did not have to be so.
“Again, Michael shouldn’t have been taken off the ICU bed in the first place. Not within 24hours after surgery, but there was another major surgery… the entire Korle Bu has only four ICU beds,” she said in an interview with CITI FM.
In other news, angry residents of Amanase, a suburb of Suhum in the Eastern Region have set ablaze a vehicle belonging to some five suspected ritual murderers.
The suspects are; Prince Adjololo, 26, Solomon Adjololo, 28, Mintah Benjamin, 23, Felix Haya, 27, and Akwasi Tenkorang, 27.
They were arrested by a mob when they allegedly tried abducting a child in the community for rituals, Myjoyonline reported. The irate youth took the suspects to the chiefs’ palace for interrogation, howling for their blood while wielding sticks and machetes.
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