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Osu Gov't Maternity Home suspends medical care

Medical care has been suspended at the facility after ECG disconnected power at the facility

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The Osu Government Maternity Home has suspended medical care after the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) disconnected power to the facility.

Over 40 persons who were at the facility have been left stranded as a result.

The Matron of the facility, Ella Hason Owusu, has explained that “we don’t pay but instead, we send the bills to the regional office and then the bills are taken to the Ministry of Finance, and they [the ECG personnel] went away.

“But the ECG personnel came again today [Friday] to disconnect the maternity home’s power. “I asked the guy if somebody is delivering or coming to deliver, what should I tell the person? He told me I should tell the person to go to a private facility and go and deliver there.”

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“Now the patients are sitting down. We can’t run lab tests for them because there is no is light. The worst part is if somebody comes in now to deliver, that is where the problem will come from; they are stranded. They have to go outside private hospitals around which will cost them more,” Ella Hason Owusu told Accra-based Citi FM.

She has since appealed to the authorities to come to their aid.

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