ATAA AYI AND KOMBIAN ATTEND HOSPITAL IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT
ATAA AYI AND KOMBIAN
ATTEND HOSPITAL IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT. Officials at the newly inaugurated Ankaful
Maximum Security Prisons in the Central Region fear inmates can escape anytime
if prevailing conditions there are not managed properly.
This is because the officers are compelled to take the convicts outside to seek medical attention because, the health facility in the prisons, has been without drugs for almost a year. There also no vehicles to convey them under such circumstances.
The convicts, who are mainly for robbery and other first degree felonies, are serving sentences ranging between 50 to 172 years. They include notably hardened criminals such as Ataa Ayi and Johnson Kombian.
Weeks of investigations by Ghana News reveal that the prisoners who were transferred from the Nsawam Maximum Security Prison, the Kumasi Central, the Sekondi Central and the Ankaful Annex Prisons are taken out to seek medical attention rather being treated at the health centre in the prisons solely built for the purposes of treating convicts with such criminal profiles.
Currently, two of the convicts are on admission at the Ankaful Leprosarium hospital because the nurses at the prison's health facility have no drugs to treat them and thus have no option than to refer them to other facilities elsewhere.
Doctors who hitherto, were called in to work on the patients when their ailments were beyond control of the nurses working in the facility, have also stopped going to the facility because there are no drugs and other related health materials.
A source at the Maximum security prisons told Ghana News; “there is no paracetamol, neither is there any single drug that can be used to treat the prisoners should any of them fall sick. Imagine sending someone like Ataa Ayi or Johnson Kombian out of this facility to seek medical attention elsewhere. Anything can happen!” Apart from the deficit in health at the Maximum security
This is because the officers are compelled to take the convicts outside to seek medical attention because, the health facility in the prisons, has been without drugs for almost a year. There also no vehicles to convey them under such circumstances.
The convicts, who are mainly for robbery and other first degree felonies, are serving sentences ranging between 50 to 172 years. They include notably hardened criminals such as Ataa Ayi and Johnson Kombian.
Weeks of investigations by Ghana News reveal that the prisoners who were transferred from the Nsawam Maximum Security Prison, the Kumasi Central, the Sekondi Central and the Ankaful Annex Prisons are taken out to seek medical attention rather being treated at the health centre in the prisons solely built for the purposes of treating convicts with such criminal profiles.
Currently, two of the convicts are on admission at the Ankaful Leprosarium hospital because the nurses at the prison's health facility have no drugs to treat them and thus have no option than to refer them to other facilities elsewhere.
Doctors who hitherto, were called in to work on the patients when their ailments were beyond control of the nurses working in the facility, have also stopped going to the facility because there are no drugs and other related health materials.
A source at the Maximum security prisons told Ghana News; “there is no paracetamol, neither is there any single drug that can be used to treat the prisoners should any of them fall sick. Imagine sending someone like Ataa Ayi or Johnson Kombian out of this facility to seek medical attention elsewhere. Anything can happen!” Apart from the deficit in health at the Maximum security
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