A 55-year-old man has been found dead on Thursday 19 August 2021 after he allegedly escaped from the COVID-19 Centre of the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital.
Health officials said Paulus Okine left the treatment centre because of his insistence that he had not contracted COVID. He had reported to the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department where he was screened.
Aware of his status, the security man on duty at the treatment centre questioned him about where he was going. Okine rather warned the security man not to approach or pursue him or he (Okine) would harm him.
The patient hurriedly exited before the security detail could report the incident but was found dead near the hospital’s nurses quarters later, according to clinicians.
A report has been made to the police for investigation.
Possible cause
It is suspected that when Okine moved from the hospital, he trekked to the main road by climbing the hilly, near three kilometer distance through the nurses quarters in an attempt to descend to the bus stop, reports the state-owned Daily Graphic.
Ennimil Arthur
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