Nana Obeng Owusu Jnr., a level 200 Law student of the University of Ghana, Legon, has met his untimely death after an alleged wrong injection by a male nurse of the Ewim Polyclinic in Cape Coast, the Central regional capital.
The disturbing occurrence which has soon amassed wide media airing is said to have happened Monday, October 9, 2023, around 8pm.
Madam Nelly Mills, a mother to the deceased in an interview with Kumasi-based Sompa FM’s Eric Annan disclosed to have sent her strong and healthy son to the aforementioned hospital for first aide treatment, as the son felt the need for a nebulizer having battled asthma for ten (10) years now.
“We went to the hospital around 8pm and the accused nurse responsible for my son’s death by name Micheal at the emergency ward having earlier shouted at us, later wrote a medicine for me to go and buy.
“I left Nana Obeng and his brother in the care of this nurse, only to return in about 15minutes time to see my son in a restless mood panting and foaming.
“The nurse upon interrogation confirmed to me to have administered an injection on my son which wasn’t our motive of being to the hospital but for a nebulizer. Having sent me out for a medicine which cost me only GH¢7 to be used concurrently with the nebulizer few minutes back.
“Nurses there, upon witnessing the sudden change of mood my son was exhibiting, hastily rose to action and started compressing my boy’s chest to calm his nerves, having been laid on a bed to subsequently pronounce my son clinically dead,” the bereaved mother narrated.
She further established that the exact drug allegedly used in injecting her son is yet to be communicated to her. She has therefore called on the Ghana Health Service and all appropriate quarters to come out and explain to the family on what exactly led to her son’s swift death.
The family, however, is calling for justice for their departed member, as they bewail the fact that the alleged nurse in question still moves around freely without any police invite since the time the incident was reported.
The body of the deceased has since been deposited at the University of Cape Coast Hospital Morgue with the case officially reported to the Kotokuraba Police Command.
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