Earlier on Tuesday, there were reports that a doctor (Daughter of Ashanti Regional NSS director) who is offering her housemanship at the Manhyia District Hospital had prescribed a drip (valium) for a kid at the children’s ward.
Reports speculated that the prescription of the medicine erupted confusion between the nurse and the doctor where she (the doctor) informed her father, Alex Opoku-Mensah, the Ashanti Regional NSS Director who stormed the Manhyia Hospital on Sunday and verbally assaulted the nurse.
However, the Medical Superintendent of Manhyia District Hospital, Dr Kamarudeen Korku Hussein speaking on Oyerepa Breakfast Time, Wednesday refuted those claims.
According to him, the doctor did not prescribe valium for any child because she doesn’t work in the children’s ward, but in the surgical ward.
“The doctor didn’t prescribe a valium to any child as speculated on social media because she doesn’t work at the children’s ward, she works at the surgical ward.”
What brought about the confusion?
Detailing what exactly brought about the rift, Dr Kamarudeen Korku Hussein narrated that;
“A doctor (Daughter of Ashanti Regional NSS director) prescribed a drip for a patient and left for her office.
The nurse who was on duty went to a pharmacy but could not get that drip therefore she informed the doctor to come back and change the drip….
Another doctor who was on duty tried to make the change but he could not use the in-system code (ID) to effect the changes….. So the nurse decided to call the doctor who made the prescription to come back and make the changes because she (the doctor) was still at the facility; she needed the simplest way to correct the situation.
So she (the nurse) called the doctor on phone and asked her to come and make a change to the drip. The doctor responded she isn’t on duty so the other doctor on duty should make the change.
So according to the doctor, as she was talking, the nurse dropped the call because she (the nurse) had an emergency.
The doctor returned to change the drip but whatever transpired between the two, I can’t tell. I spoke to them and both of them told me, they spoke to each other politely.” Dr Kamarudeen Korku Hussein stated.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com / Joseph Marfo
