The surgery theater at the Effia-Nkwanta regional
hospital in Takoradi in the Western region, Ghana, caved in during a live
surgical operation.
The development caused a temporary hold up on
three ongoing operation and doctors had to transfer the patients to Kwesi Mintin Hospital for the process to continue. One
of the patients, a 31-year-old pregnant woman died. Her death are being
attributed to the incident.
According to local media, she died due to
unavailability of blood transfusion equipment or 'giving
set' at the hospital. But the medical
Director of Effa Nkwanta Hospital, Dr. Kwau Ntodi in an interview with
Joy News correspondent Francis Whajah denied the report. He said the
lady could have died even if the incident had not happened because she
had a ruptured uterus.
Her death, he said,
could not have been as a result of the movement from the hospital to
another. The medical officer who attended to the deceased on arrival
said the baby had already died before they arrived at the hospital.
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