MEDICAL CARE DENIED A CHILD
Hospital Sent Home Unstable Accident Victim For Money In Bamenda
It is an obligation sustained by law to offer assistance to someone in danger. It is considered a criminal offense for defaulters. First aid has beyond doubt sustained people till proper medical attention and the eventual saving of lives.
Faced with an emergency situation, it is but normal to consider immediate medical attention than requesting money. Worst still when it has to do with a government run medical institution.
The colonial Bamenda regional hospital denied medical attention to a 14 year-old girl involved in a road accident just because the mother could not deposit money charged for scanning.
Is the hospital staff just respecting the colonial instruction against the people of Ambazonia by La Republique du Cameroun?
Was the money going to be used to buy the scanner?
By the ethics of the medical profession, is it right to send home an unstable accident victim from a health facility?
It was Friday July 22, that the Bamenda Regional hospital in Mezam County denied medical attention to a victim of a road accident.
The 14 year-old girl after being knocked down by a motor bike was rushed to the above mentioned hospital. She arrived the hospital crying of a severe pain on the head and could not stand on her feet without help.
The mother to this little girl informed of the situation, arrived the said hospital about an hour after the daughter was rushed to the hospital.
Astonished that her girl child has not benefited from any first aid and no pain killer administered to her. The mother was further demoralised when she was asked to deposit the sum of 150,000fcfa and equivalent to about $ 300 US Dollars before any attention be given child.
Under the watchful eyes of medical practitioners, this downcast woman carried her weiling daughter out of the Bamenda Regional hospital in Mezam County.
UNDAUNTED caught up with this 14 year-old girl on Sunday July 24, 2022, two days after the incidence. The girl was stable just after taken pain killer gotten from nearby medicine store at the Alamatou neighborhood.
UNDAUNTED tried in vain to get a staff of the Bamenda regional hospital react on the issue
