June 12

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DAILY HERITAGE TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2018
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Editorial
Why should sick patients be in queue?
IT IS common to see critically
ill persons in long queues
waiting to be attended to in
major hospitals in the country.
The practice in some hospitals
is that when patients are
rushed there, the first port of
call is the administrative section
where the necessary
cards are obtained before the
commencement of treatment.
Not long ago when there
was cholera outbreak in Accra
which claimed over 100 lives,
it was observed that some patients
kept too long in long
queues before being attended
to.
The DAILY HER-
ITAGE’S monitoring team
observed at the Korle-Bu
Polyclinic, for instance, that
some patients had to wait for
quite some time before being
attended to.
The sickening excuse of no
bed must stop.
We understand that there is
sometimes pressure on the
medical personnel at the various
health facilities, particularly
during outbreak, but the
best strategy in our view is to
provide first aid service to the
vulnerable and not leave them
in long queues.
Women, children and the
critically ill, for example,
should be given all the necessary
attention when they are
rushed to the hospital.
There should also be adequate
emergency preparedness
at the various health
facilities to contain emergency
situations.
Health personnel must also
cultivate the habit of reading
various treatment protocols
to get aligned with fast changing
treatment trends.
Many a time some nurses
prefer waiting for the doctor
before a patient who is critical
ill is attended to.
Some deaths could be
avoided if first aid treatment
is administered to patients in
emergency situations.
Don’t deal with
land guards
THE CHIEF of Staff of
the Nungua Stool, Mr
Frank Kofi Lewi, has issued
a statement on behalf
of the Paramount
Chief of Nungua, King Odafio Welentsi
III, to caution illegal developers
and encroachers on Nungua
Stool Lands who are knowingly or
unknowingly dealing or buying
parcels of Nungua Stool lands from
known land guards who parade
themselves as royals and land owners
within the Borteyman enclave and its
surroundings.
Recently when the Ministry of
Food and Agriculture embarked on
demolition exercise to reclaim their
lands at Borteyman, some individuals
who were affected claimed to
have bought their lands from land
guards who live at Nungua.
But, the Chief of Staff of Nungua
has clarified that no land guard
or any other person has any right to
• Land developers at
Borteyman & environs told
sell Nungua land without the consent
of the Paramount Chief or the
Nungua Traditional Council and
therefore businessmen and developers
should be warned in this regard.
The Chief of Staff indicated that
in their recent inspection report, it
became clear that some individuals
had appropriated some stool lands
to themselves whilst others also
showed documents which were
forged and purported to have come
from the Stool only for proper
scrutiny to prove otherwise.
He said apart from some of these
infractions, there were some few
others too who had been taken to
court and the courts had issued specific
orders and judgment against
them.
Mr Lewi stated that those buying
from land guards and fraudsters in
the area should be very careful to ensure
that they have the right documentations
because “the Stool will
not relax any longer and will embark
on a vigorous investigation to expose
all the fraudsters who are duping
unsuspecting estate developers
with fraudulent documents.”
He stressed that “developers
must first submit their land acquisition
documents to the Traditional
Council for validation before they
can proceed further to develop the
land.
“This is not the first time we
have had cause to caution the general
public on
these matters and
even at a point
went further to
notify the Inspector
General of
Police in an official
letter which
was later published
in the
newspapers but
these fraudulent activities appear
to be never ending,” he said.
He further stated that the Lands
Commission should take steps to
stop processing all land documents
or transactions on all stool lands of
Nungua.
He warned that failure to do so
•Frank Kofi Lewi, Chief of Staff (Nungua Stool)
would be interpreted as disrespect to
the authority of the Stool and Council
and the Council will be left with
no other choice than to take legal action
against such persons who have
failed to demonstrate appropriate
legal ownership of the said lands
which they were developing.