Few minutes past, Globaltipsgh.com reported that another final year student has died after a short illness.
Nathaniel
Yankey, a student of Gwiraman Senior High School reportedly died in the early
hours of Wednesday, July 15, 2020, at the Essikado Hospital.
The
reports added that he had earlier called his mother to complain of a severe
headache but gave up the ghost while responding to treatment at Essikado
Hospital.
Well,
the mother of the deceased has broken her silence on her son’s sudden death.
Speaking to 3news.com,
she said the son called her on Saturday, July 11, complaining of severe
headache.
Her son told her his friends were sending
him to the hospital so she shouldn’t worry to step a foot there.
She
further, the whereabouts of his teachers but Nathaniel said she shouldn’t worry.
She continued that not long afterward, a teacher called informing her that the son was not well.
“So I asked him, so you being a teacher,
what have you done about it? Haven’t you heard of what happened in Kumasi? It’s
all over the airwaves, Connect FM has even reported.
“But
he responded that Nat’s friends had sent him to the hospital.”
Mena
Adjoa Esson, who has a shop at the Essikado Hospital, says around that time, a
teacher friend who had brought some students from another school in Sekondi for
medical attention also called the teacher to enquire about Nat but she was told
he had not returned from the Hospital.
She
then called the son who said he had been given paracetamol at the hospital for
the headache.
“I
was livid! How could they give him only paracetamol? I told him I was coming
for him, but again, he declined.
“He
said the hospital was taking GH¢150 so I sent it to him.
“On
Sunday when I called that I was coming for him, he said he was going for
classes and that the roads in the area were terrible especially as it was
raining so I shouldn’t worry myself.
“It was on Tuesday that when I spoke to him, I realized he sounded weak so I insisted I was going to school. But he told me he was en route back home as he was not feeling too well. I asked him whether he had informed the school authorities to which he replied that he had not done so because he would have been asked to go and continue with the paracetamol medication.
“When
he got here, I sent him to the hospital and they immediately put him on oxygen
and other machines.
“He
passed away on the dawn of Wednesday”.
Mena
Adwoa Esson says some people purported to have come from the Ghana Education
Service (GES) came to the hospital to talk to her.
An
attempt to speak to the authorities at the Essikado hospital was unsuccessful
as they were said to be in a meeting.
In
the meantime, the body has been sent to the morgue at the Effia Nkwanta
Regional Hospital, awaiting autopsy.
Portions
of text culled from 3news.
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