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Ashongman Community Hospital denies refusing blood donor blood | 24th July, 2017

 The management of The Community Hospital, Ashongman Estates in Accra, have denied reports suggesting they denied a request for blood from the GAEC Hosptial resulting to the death of the patient.

Mr. Adolf Lawson, the father of the deceased 21-year-old level 300 student at the Catholic University, had obtained the request from the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) Hospital where his daughter was on admission but could not get the blood.

Mr. Lawson, who himself, son and the sick daughter are card-bearing blood donors, then went to the Amasaman Government Hospital but could not get the blood. He finally got the needed quantity (3 pints) at the Achimota Government Hospital. He got to the GAEC Hospital only to be told his daughter has died.

But a brief statement signed by Storms Wells, Assistant General Manager of The Community Hospital and copied to Myjoyonline.com Monday, July 24, stated, the facility was helpless to the situation because they only had a limited number of the body fluid which had been processed for patients who were being operated at the theatre.

Read the full statement below:

WALK IN REQUEST FOR BLOOD


On the 22nd of July 2017, a gentleman approached our Laboratory with a request from The Ghana Atomic Energy Hospital for three pints of blood
He presented a Blood Donor Certificate to justify why the request must be prioritised Unfortunately for us we had only a few pints of blood already crossmatched for theatre patients.

He was therefore directed to go to either the Amasaman or Achimota hospital or Korle Bu
There was no mention of money in the conversation and it, therefore, came as a surprise that the hospital had turned away the gentleman on account of his inability to raise funds

The Community Group of Hospitals operates and manages The Community Hospital in Ashongman Estates and the Kaneshie Medical Centre all in Accra, as well as The Community Hospital in Oda and Kukurantumi in the Eastern Region.

We express our condolences to the bereaved family but we were helpless to the situation.

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