The West Mamprusi Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Issahaku Aremeyaw Somo has confirmed the death of a young man, aged 19 who passed at Walewale in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region after contracting coronavirus.
The young man died after four hours on admission at the Walewale Government Hospital. Doctors suspected COVID-19 symptoms, detained his body and took his sample for testing at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR).
Unfortunately, the results prove positive for COVID-19. But before the confirmation, his body was released to the family for burial since there was no morgue.
It has been reported that the asthmatic victim had no travel history. The Municipal Emergency Response Team had started to contact trace.
The hospital staff who were in contact are quarantining, and the emergency ward of the hospital where the deceased had been on admission immediately shut down for disinfection.
The victims family members have also been advised to quarantine.
However, it is reported that the family has declared the result as false and are refusing to adhere to advice to quarantine.
According to Joy News, the family members said they suspect a cover-up plot by the management of the Walewale hospital.
“From the beginning up the end its lies, there no truth in it”, spokesman of the Family, Ibrahim Alhassan told JoyNews, Saturday morning. “We are not saying the disease doesn’t exist but our son did not die with that virus. He is an asthmatic patient. It’s purely political and there something behind it.”
According to the family, the hospital refused the patient admission. He said that, “when the corpse was taken to the hospital, they were denied, that they shouldn’t enter. The guy was even crying for oxygen but the nurses denied him.” “You didn’t have hands to treat him so which hands did they use to take sample’, the family spokesman quizzed.
Joy News reports that the issue has caused the resident and family members to refuse testing and the North East Regional Security Council is holding an emergency meeting with the regional health directorate to solve the crisis.
Ghana’s COVID-19 cases now at 378 as updated to Ghanaians as of April 9, 2020. The government has extended the lockdown in the lockdown areas to another week and declared the absorption of water bills for Ghanaians.
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