SHOCKED: I Can’t Believe This Is My Doctor

Health Minister Alex Segbefia

I am 83 years old and over the last six years my life has become completely dependent on one person-a medical officer at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

I believe strongly that it is this person who has made it possible to live through the last six years and to spend quality time with my great grand children and grand children.

This doctor has become my hope and my everything. He has showed compassion, he has been caring and treated me as a human being whose life is is worth something.

 At my age, it is not strange that my health is deteriorating. I have a serious heart condition and problems with my blood circulation. I even have a pacer planted in my body.

As a result of these and other weaknesses, I see my doctor regularly for reviews and my review was due on Monday, August 10.2015.

I had heard about the doctors strike but somehow I had convinced myself that the doctor who had been so kind to me would not forsake me simply because he needs a few cedis more and is angry at a government in which I play no part.

I went to the hospital only to be told that my doctor would not see me and that I can die for him to make a point to President Mahama and his government.

Why should I die because my doctor has a problem with President Mahama and his administration? What is the link between my health and the doctor ‘s anger  at Mahama?

Right now I have lost my balance in movement and when I attempt to walk I feel like falling. It was my hope that my doctor will help  me to overcome  this problem but unfortunately, he and his collegues are telling us that we can die and go to hell.

 They simply do not care anymore.

I am just so shocked that the nice and kind ladies and gentlemen we have always looked up to to give us good health have all of a sudden become monsters ready to sacrifice our blood for cedis.

 I may die today or tomorrow, maybe a week later or more and I go to my grave believing that after all doctors are not so special. They are like everybody else. They too can hold a gun to our heads and say  “Pay or die”

What a shame!!

James Ato Mensah

Accra

Editorial

Go Back To Work

Some medical officers in Ghana operating under the guise of the Ghana Medical Association  (GMA) are setting a very bad precedence which could harm themselves.

These doctors think that because they  perform essential duties they can hold the whole nation to ransom and get whatever they want.

They simply forget that even in the hospitals and clinics they ran, there are other professionals without whose support they cannot function.

There are the pharmacists, the nurses, technicians and even the unskilled labour force.

Do Ghanaian doctors grow their own food?

We strongly appeal to all doctors to go back to work immediately in their own best interest.

Yes, people may die but many people whose services doctors also need will suffer to an extent which will affect everybody including the doctors.

81 Year Old Ex-Serviceman Seeks Justice

Mark Woyongo Defence Minister

Discharged from the Ghana army in 1968 Sergeant Owusu Otti Achampong is still fighting for his pension.

Achampong joined the Gold Coast Ordinance in 1955 and served with the Camp and Base Ordinances, among others.

Sergeant Achempong has since been chasing his pension but without success. Although he was not informed that he was dismissed from the Army, he discovered this  after he had petitioned the Commission on Human Right and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) that the Army recorded his exit from the Army as a dismissal.

He said he was surprised by the information and so far his attempts to know why he was dismissed have not yielded results.

 He remembers he was detained for three days after making an art donation to Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

He suspects his problems with the Army have to do with that donation although he did not receive his donation back.

His purported dismissal and detention came after the February 1966 Coup, sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America,which toppled the Nkrumah Government.

Sergeant Achampong since has since been to the Veterans Association, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and Legal Aid for remedy but in vain.

MY SAD STORY/ HOW I LOST MY SIGHT 

It’s the hope of every young man to live and see how beautiful his children grow up to be as well as appreciate the beauty of his wife, mother, sisters and nature. However, some are not lucky enough to appreciate and see this beauty physically but only do so through the imagination of the mind. As a result of this unfortunate situation, it is sometimes even difficult to engage in any meaningful economic activities to support the very people one cherishes so much coupled with the stigma attached to it. Most at times, most of these people end up as beggars on our streets which are already confronted with numerous challenges.

I, Balla Yakubu is one of the unfortunate ones who would not be able to see this illuminating beauty of nature and my relatives especially my children through no fault of mine. My fault for this unfortunate situation was being a commercial driver plying the Kumasi-Yeji high way trying to make ends meet.

On the 30th July, 2011 my vehicle with registration number GN 6422 Z developed a fault on the way to Yeji from Kumasi with a host of passengers. I then joined the second vehicle which loaded after me to call a mechanic to fix the vehicle from Yeji. The driver who was my colleague at the station decided that I join him in front. Just about 45Km to Yeji, Our vehicle was signaled by an illuminating light to stop. As we approached the stoppers we realized they were arm robbers, so the driver stopped and got out of the car and started running whiles the highlight from our vehicle had focused on the robbers.

 They then ordered that the light be turn off, I then jumped to the driver’s seat to turn off the light. It was at this juncture the robbers, I believe thought I was either going to speed away or attack them so they shot directly into my eyes. I was taken to Mathias hospital at Yeji and later referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) emergency/intensive care unit. I spent about three months at the KATH with the hope of my sight being restored by the doctors. I could not still see after I was discharged from the hospital even though the doctors assured me I would regain my sight.

After staying home for some time with no hope, family members out of desperation took me to traditional healers who also tried on countless occasions to no avail in restore my sight.

At the moment I depend on a friend who has done very well but he is also finding it difficult to keep the level of support. Things are becoming so difficult and unbearable for us.

This is my story and am ready to share it with the rest of the world and maybe there is someone out there who will be touched and will come to my aid. Finally am ready to provide you with all the medical reports and other documents for your perusal. Thanks in anticipation    0272414455/0265916691