The death of a male patient at the emergency ward of the Upper East Regional Hospital yesterday threw others, who were on their sick beds, into a state of despair as they wondered if they could make it out of the ward alive.
The patient was said to have been rushed to the hospital the previous night and was placed on oxygen at the emergency ward.
However, in the wee hours of August 31, 2023, the oxygen supply to him ran out and needed to be restocked.
But the officer in charge was no where to be found, according to a former Assembly Member for Dapooretingo, who was said to have witnessed the unfortunate incident unfold.
All efforts by nurses on duty at the time to get the officer in charge to supply the patient oxygen yielded no results.
He was said to have claimed that he had made available enough oxygen a day ago and did not understand why all the cylinders of the gas would be utilised.
Unable to breath properly due to the non-availability of the medicine, the patient wailed faintly for his life to be saved until about 4:30am when he gave up the ghost.
His death left others on their sick beds at the ward distraught and in despair.
According to the former Assembly Member, Gabriel Ayine, some of the patients at the ward could not stand the scene and had to totter out. Others burst into tears.
One of them, who could not move out, remarked that “‘let me reposition myself, I’m sure I’m next (to die) since there’s no oxygen’”.
