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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, APRIL <strong>27</strong>, 2018<br />
05<br />
Editorial<br />
Sick patients should not be in queue<br />
IT IS common to see critically ill persons<br />
in long queues waiting to be attended<br />
to in major hospitals in the<br />
country.<br />
The practice in some hospitals is<br />
that when patients are rushed there,<br />
the first port of call is the administrative<br />
section where the necessary<br />
cards are obtained before the commencement<br />
of treatment.<br />
Not long ago when there was<br />
cholera outbreak in Accra, which<br />
claimed over 100 lives, it was observed<br />
that some patients kept too<br />
long in long queues before being attended<br />
to.<br />
The DAILY HERITAGE’S<br />
monitoring team observed at the<br />
Korle-Bu Polyclinic, for instance,<br />
that some patients had to wait for<br />
quite some time before being catered<br />
for.<br />
We understand that sometimes<br />
there is pressure on the medical personnel<br />
at the various health facilities,<br />
particularly during epidemic, but the<br />
best strategy, in our view is to provide<br />
first aid service to the vulnerable<br />
and not leave them in long queues.<br />
Women, children and the critically<br />
ill, for example, should be given all<br />
the necessary attention when they are<br />
rushed to the hospital.<br />
There should also be adequate<br />
emergency preparedness at the various<br />
health facilities to contain emergency<br />
situations.<br />
Health personnel must also cultivate<br />
the habit of reading various<br />
treatment protocols to get aligned<br />
with fast-changing treatment trends.<br />
Many a time some nurses prefer<br />
waiting for the doctor before a patient<br />
who is critical ill is attended to.<br />
Some deaths could be avoided if<br />
first aid treatment is administered to<br />
patients in emergency situations.<br />
BOST, COPEC face off<br />
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH<br />
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh<br />
THE CHIEF Executive Officer<br />
(CEO) of the Bulk Oil<br />
Storage and Transportation<br />
(BOST) Company, Mr Alfred<br />
Obeng Boateng, has<br />
been ordered by the Labour Court in<br />
Accra to correct the mistakes in his<br />
defamation suit against the Executive Director<br />
of the Chamber of Petroleum<br />
Consumers Ghana, Mr Duncan Amoah.<br />
In a defamation suit against the<br />
COPEC boss, Mr Boateng is claiming<br />
GH¢5 million from COPEC over allegations<br />
of death threats made against him.<br />
Mr Amoah, in a motion, asked the<br />
court to strike out the writ of summons<br />
and statement of claim from BOST on<br />
the grounds that the plaintiff failed to<br />
provide the appropriate residential and<br />
business addresses pursuant to order 2<br />
rules 3(2) of the High Court.<br />
But, the court presided over by Justice<br />
Mrs Gifty Dekyem, refused the application<br />
on the premise that the whereabouts<br />
of the plaintiff in the case were not lost<br />
on the defendant.<br />
According to the court, to achieve<br />
speedy and effective justice, avoid delays<br />
and unnecessary expense, and in the<br />
supreme interest of justice, plaintiff is<br />
ordered to, within 14 days, take steps to<br />
amend the writ with addresses, if known.<br />
• Go and correct your mistakes,<br />
court tells BOST CEO<br />
“The non-provision<br />
of the addresses in<br />
this instant action<br />
is to be regarded<br />
as an irregularity,<br />
which does not<br />
result in nullity,”<br />
the court stated.<br />
COPEC case<br />
It was the case of Mr Amoah that the<br />
suit was full of irregularities.<br />
In his interlocutory injunction, Mr<br />
Amoah contended that though the name<br />
of the workplaces of the parties had<br />
been indicated as BOST and COPEC respectively,<br />
the occupational and residential<br />
addresses of the parties had not been<br />
stated as required by the rule.<br />
It was the case of the defendant that<br />
the word ‘shall’ having been used makes<br />
the provision of the addresses mandatory<br />
failing which the writ is void and<br />
ought to be set aside.<br />
But, the court ruled that “there has<br />
On March 13, the CEO of BOST,<br />
through his lawyer, William Osei<br />
Kufuor, filed a suit at the High<br />
Court.<br />
The plaintiff/applicant is praying<br />
the honourable court “for an order<br />
of injunction restraining the defendant/<br />
respondent, his agents, assigns,<br />
workmen, and all persons<br />
claiming through or under him from<br />
further publishing or broadcasting<br />
any word or words or images in any<br />
manner whatsoever to the effect that<br />
plaintiff had co-opted, engaged,<br />
contracted or solicited the services<br />
not been any demonstration that the<br />
non-provision of the plaintiff ’s addresses<br />
on the writ is also a breach of<br />
the constitution of the Republic of<br />
Ghana or of statutes other than the rules<br />
of natural justice.<br />
“The non-provision of the addresses<br />
in this instant action is to be regarded as<br />
an irregularity, which does not result in<br />
nullity,” the court stated.<br />
Background<br />
of any person or persons to curse,<br />
insult, attack, threaten the life of the<br />
defendant or threaten to kill defendant<br />
in three days pending a final<br />
determination to this suit upon<br />
terms more particularly stated in the<br />
accompanying affidavit.”<br />
The CEO also prayed the court to<br />
slap a GH¢ 2 million damages<br />
against the defendant for damaging<br />
his professional reputation; GH¢ 2<br />
million for damaging his social reputation<br />
and GH¢1 million for the<br />
psychological trauma the death<br />
threat publication has had on him.
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