The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Juaboso Constituency and ranking member on health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh is urging for the interdiction of the ambulance crew whose negligence allegedly led to the death of a nursing mother in the Western Region.
“There are more questions than answers that have been provided so far. So, for me, even at this hour if the ambulance driver and the crew are interdicted pending investigation that won’t be bad at all,” he said to reporters.
He has also said parliament would probe the issue.
“I don’t want to pre-empt any investigation, but it is not the best. I don’t think that anybody deserves to lose their lives when they are going to give birth. The story is bizarre, and so we have to get back into Parliament and commence a probe of the whole issue.”
The deceased, Augustina Awortwe, was said to have lost her life due to a delay in the movement of the ambulance to Accra after doctors referred her from the Holy Child Clinic at Fijai, to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for further treatment.
The husband of the deceased said the delay was as a result of his inability to pay GH¢600 demanded as fuel fees for the ambulance.
Meanwhile, the Western Region Coordinator of the National Ambulance Service, Dr. Tawiah Tsiameh, has said claims that delays resulting from the search for fuel money led to the death of the woman are untrue.
“While on the way, they were called to go and pick the day-old baby, so they had to return to the hospital and that definitely caused a delay,” he said on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News programme.
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