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It absolutely was the couple’s very first maternity. The euphoria had been high, blended thoughts of anxiety, joy and nervousness took over, as an expectant dad awaited their very very first son or daughter.

But in the labour ward during the Ga western Municipal Hospital, Amasaman, within the better Accra area, a deadly challenge finished those objectives.

“My wife’s words that are last me had been ‘I’m dying. Why can’t they simply work on me? ’” Collins Tekolibe, an insurance coverage Broker recalled that on May 2, 2019 day.

Their spouse had been 34-years old, plus the wedding had been significantly less than an old year.

Collins Tekolibe sat down with theghanareport.com reporter, Aba Asamoah, and revealed their attitude that is listless towards since that time.

“I don’t look at essence of living. My child may be the only cause for maintaining me alive. ”

He thinks their wife’s death was avoidable. She passed away due to medical negligence, he alleged.

“We surely got to a medical facility at about 2 pm on May 2, 2019, and the nurses directed us to the waiting room because, according to them, my wife’s cervix had opened to only two centimetres thursday. It necessary to available to 10 on her behalf to provide.

“We waited until 9 pm. It launched by one centimetre. Therefore, I became along with her till the day that is following Friday additionally the discomfort had increased. It had been as if I experienced simply earned a crisis.

He accused the nurses into the maternity ward on that of being indifferent to the plight of his wife day.

“…They provided me with prescription upon prescription to get and I also had been helter-skelter that is running on the medical center in search of the medications. The new pharmacist who replaced the old one on the shift demanded a folder and it confused me on one of my trips to the pharmacy.

“He later on explained for me that the medication I became about investing in is covered because of the nationwide Health Insurance Scheme. Before they did, ” he recalled so I went back to the nurses for the folder and they had affixed it to other folders while they sat and played on their phones. The pharmacist insisted they sign my folder for me.

Collins’ basis for visiting the medical center would be to offer words that are soothing their spouse as she battles the aches of labour.

But general public hospitals in Ghana club husbands from the labour wards and theatres. Therefore, he waited. He counted mins into hours. He counted the true wide range of windows into the medical center. He might have counted woods and their branches and seats until 12.30 pm.

“I became standing, i did son’t understand what ended up being occurring, therefore at about 12:30 a nursing assistant found me personally and whispered in my experience that my partner had delivered. We heaved a sigh of relief, but evidently, it absolutely was the start of my problems, ” he said wiping rips.

When they delivered the headlines, Collins did see the baby n’t and mother until about one hour later on. Away from fascination, he stated, he peeped through the screen for the labour ward to own a look into their brand brand new family members.

“I wasn’t seeing the child or my spouse I saw my wife sitting on the bed so I got nervous and went close to the transparent window and. The second thing we saw ended up being the nursing assistant standing I usage violently instructively and she dropped regarding the bed breathless…. By her pressed her violently and”

” we suspected my partner had died, them why they were maltreating my wife? Therefore I panicked and went asiandate along to the stationed nurses to question”

The concern tickled nerves. The nurse whom presumably forced Mrs Tekolibe hurriedly arrived of this ward to confront Collins.

“These had been her terms, ‘you sef you’ve been cooperating you now saying we are maltreating your wife with us all this while, why are? Come to see, your lady is even bleeding, along with your infant just isn’t even experiencing fine…see due to everything you have inked we intend to refer you to definitely Nsawam Government Hospital. We don’t desire you to provide us any trouble”‘ he recalled.

He’d discover later on that the extended labour had affected mental performance of their son.

In state of ambivalence, Collins was expected to send their son into the Nsawam Government Hospital. There is no ambulance—It ended up being simply him and less-than- a-day-old youngster.

Their globe arrived crashing, he stated, as he had been torn between delivering their kid to your hospital that is referral being along with his beloved wife.

The baby was chosen by him over their spouse since, based on him, she had been with experts.

But before he could choose his baby up and check out Nsawam, a medical facility asked him to donate bloodstream for their ‘dying’ wife.

” i got myself the bloodstream and sped down to the Nsawam Government Hospital with a buddy, without any escort through the medical center. We left my spouse into the arms of a female who had been additionally here to see a member of family.

“A short while in to the journey, the girl called to say that they had hurried my partner to your theater, and therefore heightened my nervousness, I happened to be completely confused, nevertheless the medical center didn’t phone me”

“Around 8:30 pm, we came back from Nsawam to Amasaman and I also went right to the nurses to find out more about of my spouse, simply to find out that my partner had died, ” he stated with clenched fists.

The widower, that is bent on getting justice for their belated wife, stated the hospital carried out no autopsy on their spouse, instead a healthcare facility (Ga western) offered him a coroner’s inquest become brought to the authorities.

Nevertheless the authorities after asking of their objective told him that a healthcare facility will be able to inform the reason for death, provided the true quantity of hours their wife invested in the center.

Ever since then, the soft-spoken guy has been for a objective to draw general public focus on the matter and “ensure that my spouse does not perish for absolutely absolutely nothing, with no girl dies for the reason that medical center that way once again. ”

” After per week of my wife’s death, we decided to go to a healthcare facility to understand superintendent, Dr Ntiamoah Sarpong, however it seems he had been the person that is last have experienced my spouse during the theater. That conference didn’t produce any outcome. From their demeanor, we noticed he ended up beingn’t prepared to cooperate I sensed a conflict of interest with me.

” we further petitioned the Regional wellness Directorate, but that failed to additionally yield any outcome. The directorate instituted a committee to check in to the matter they came up with a study justifying my wife’s death. They failed to offer me personally the findings associated with committee, they simply read it if you ask me in a meeting” he stated.

Having lost hope within the wellness system, Collins stated, we are living in“ I am saddened by the country. My wife deserves justice. She paid fees that have been utilized to pay for her ‘murderers’.

When contacted, the healthcare Superintendent during the Ga western Municipal Hospital, Dr Eric Sarpong-Ntiamoah, declined to discuss the presssing problem but referred theghanareport.com to your Regional Health Directorate.

Relating to him, it had been beyond him.

“The truth associated with the matter is the fact that, yes we recognize the title regarding the dead, I recognize the title associated with problem.

“The regrettable thing is the fact that this instance moved beyond me personally. He complained if you ask me in which he felt dissatisfied. Therefore he petitioned the Regional Director of wellness, whom duly put up an investigative team therefore the united group arrived right here, heard us and paid attention to him, ” he said.

He proceeded, “So, the committee sat and delivered their are accountable to the Regional Director, the Regional Director duly called Collins and disseminated the information to him”

“It may be the Regional Director who are able to offer any information on whatever had been discovered or long lasting result ended up being, it really is beyond me, ” he said.

When theghanareport.com contacted the Regional wellness Director, Dr Charity Sarpong, she additionally declined to consult with the explanation that is same the problem had been beyond her.

She referred theghanareport.com towards the Head of Legal Affairs, Dr Emmanuel Ankrah.

” This matter is in the clear presence of their attorney, therefore, I don’t know very well what else he’s after….so beyond me personally since when Collins petitioned my workplace, we constituted a group, the committee’s findings had been told him you speak to the relative head of Legal Ghana wellness Service, he can well talk with the matter, ” she stated.

A contact provided for Dr Ankrah on is yet to be responded to, although he promised to do so in a phone call wednesday.