A Medical Doctor at the Silver Bird Clinic in the Lower Manya Krobo municipal has put the husband and family of his patient, Awo Dede into panic, fear and psychological trauma after the doctor faked the death of Awo Dede.
The people of Nuaso Old Town were in a state of mourning on Friday, January 7, 2020 when unexpected news broke that the wife of one Stephen Teye had passed on at the Silver Bird Medical Center.
According to Mr. Stephen Teye, husband of the patient, Dr Osei Bonsu slapped him with GH₵998.00 as medical bills after admitting his wife for 3 days.
Following his earlier expenses on prescribed drugs, Mr. Stephen Teye could not afford to pay the close to Ghc 1000 (one thousand Ghana cedis) medical bills.
As a result of this predicament, the owner and Senior Doctor of the facility, Dr Osei Bonsu, ‘quarantined’ the patient for three days after which he told her family that Awo Dede had passed on.
When Mr Stephen Teye and family went calling for the release of the deceased’s body for burial, Dr Osei Bonsu denied the family access to the body.
Interventions
Having denied two Assembly Members the authorization to sign the undertaking for Mr Teye Stephen, Member of Parliament for Lower Manya Krobo, Hon. Ebenezer Okletey Teilarbi passed Dr Osei’s trust test and granted him the approval to sign the undertaking.
To the surprise of Mr Teye Stephen, Dr Osei told the Member of Parliament, the Assembly members and the patient’s husband that the client is alive but had faked her death to claim his GH₵998.00 medical bill.
Awo Dede joined her family Friday but met scores of sympathizers mourning her death, a moment she was made aware she had been pronounced dead.
No Comment
When Rite FM contacted Dr Osei Bonsu on Saturday afternoon for his side of the story, be declined comment on the matter, but said many clients came in similar manner and ended up running away with his money.
Responding to Lawyer Obiri Boahene on the matter, he said the conduct of the health facility did not only constitute ethical gross misconduct but also illegal practice which could incur huge court damages to the facility.
“What the doctor did was unethical to his professional oath he swore. Above all, the patient can slap huge court damages on him that he could end up selling the facility to settle,” Lawyer Obiri Boahe said.
Source: ritefmonline.org
