A five-year-old boy who was a victim of gas explosion at Tema New Town, has been detained at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital due to the inability of his mother to settle his medical bills amounting to GHҐ658.42.
Master Kwesi Tawia, who has so far spent four months at the hospital, was admitted there in April 2010 and discharged in May but he has remained there until now because the hospital authorities would not let him go until the mother is able to pay the bill.
The mother, Mary Eshun, who called at the Daily Graphic office in Accra in the company of Mr Stephen Ashittey Agyei, a parliamentary candidate of the Democratic Freedom Party in the 2008 election, explained that her son, who suffered severe burns during the explosion in March, was first admitted to the Tema General Hospital for treatment.
According to her, because of the severe nature of the burns, he was transferred to Korle-Bu for further treatment.
She said her brother and a Good Samaritan had been helpful in the purchase of some of the medications prescribed by the hospital but indicated that they were now donor fatigue and, therefore, could not provide additional support.
She said she had presented the bills to the Tema Municipal Assembly on hearing that the assembly had been helping with the payment of the medical bills of the victims of that gas explosion but nothing had been done so far for her son.
Madam Eshun appealed to philanthropists and institutions to help her settle her son’s bill so that he could be discharged from the hospital
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