By
Alice Tettey, GNA
Cape Coast, Jan. 19,
GNA – The medical bills of all accident victims of the Dompoase car crash
including mortuary bills would be settled by the government, the Minister of
Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has said.
He made this known
over the weekend when a team of government delegation including Mr Kwaku
Ofori-Asiamah, the Transport Minister and Mr Kwamena Duncan, the Central
Regional Minister, visited the injured who are still on admission at the Cape
Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH).
Mr Amoako-Atta asked
the hospital authorities to furnish the Ministry with all other bills that the
hospital would incur through the Central Regional Minister.
Consequently, Dr
Eric Ngyedu, the Chief Executive Office of the CCTH, has directed that monies
earlier paid by some of the victims be refunded once they provide their
receipts while a comprehensive report on patients including all those who would
need surgical implants be compiled for onward submission to Accra.
Briefing the team
after the visit, Dr Ngyedu said of the 26 patients admitted and several others
treated and discharged that fateful Tuesday, 17 including two children some of
whom would require surgery, were currently on admission at the male, female and
pediatric wards.
Also, he said, five
of the 34 bodies brought to the hospital mortuary are yet to be identified.
He expressed
gratitude to Mr Duncan for his sterling leadership and thanked the government
for the intervention that would bring a lot of relief to the families of the
patients and ease the work of the medical team
The delegation
including Mrs May Obiri Yeboah, the Executive Director of the National Road
Safety Authority; and COP Paul Manly Awini, the Regional Police Commander, also
inspected the scene of the accident at Dompoase Junction.
GNA