A 30-year-old pregnant woman died with her unborn baby at the Suntreso Government Hospital in Kumasi on Wednesday, 4 July 2018 after the health post refused her entry into the labour ward because her husband could not immediately pay a GHC500 “Doctor Motivation Fee”.
The late Angela Afriyie Agyemang
Angela Afriyie Agyemang later died at the theatre just as her husband had made available the GHC500 fee for which she had been denied medical attention.
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Pastor Solomon Lamo Latiff of the House of Faith Ministry in Kumasi, husband to the deceased, said he had taken his wife to the hospital the previous day when she started experiencing labour pangs after her due date exceeded by a week.
He told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show that one Dr Sarpong then informed him that a Caesarean Section (CS) was to be done but not until he had paid the GHC500 doctor motivation fee.
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Pastor Agyemang said he intends suing the hospital for medical negligence, since, according to him, the hospital allowed several other women in labour into the theatre while his wife was kept sitting in a wheelchair for over three hours due to his inability to immediately pay the GHS500 ‘Doctor Motivation Fee’.
Look you its good Ghana is a peaceful country let’s pray it’s stay like that else this people in the hospital will see fire
OMG! so when on earth can we work as professionals without thinking about money first, so what would have happened if the Doctor treated her first and later she paid the money, what is the difference between the husband bringing the money before or after treatment, come on Doctors and Nurses in Ghana pls wise up okay the world is growing, definitely she would have paid the money before she could be discharged. It’s high time government pass policies to sanction Doctors and Nurses who kill patients because of negligence, moreover too hospitals that record high maternal mortality every year.