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Disturbing Antics of Bice Osei Kuffour “Obuor”, the former President of the Music Association of Ghana (MUSIGA) has potentially exposed more than 20 nurses and doctors and hospital personnel at the Ridge and the Greater Accra Regional Hospitals in Accra to the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus infection.
An investigation has been launched into the matter as reports claim Obuor deliberately withheld information of his father’s Covid-19 risk from health officials who attended to him.
Commenting on the matter on Sunday, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, disclosed that a full report on the matter should be ready by Wednesday, April 2, 2020.
“The initial brief that came in was to the effect that this patient [Obuor’s father] has a prior condition and has been tested…and that his earlier test was not disclosed either to the persons who were picking him up in the ambulance or the persons in the emergency room that had to receive him first,” Kojo Oppong Nkrumah was quoted in reports on the bizarre behaviour of the former MUSIGA boss, who is also an aspiring Parliamentary candidate for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Apparently Obuor’s father- Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour, had returned to Ghana from the United Kingdom sick and had suspected him to have contracted the deadly Covid-19. But he claimed he tested his father for Malaria and it turned up positive.
When his father’s situation refused to subside, he reportedly took his father to the Ridge Hospital where doctors and nurses had attended to him not knowing he was a suspected Covid-19 patient.
Eventually, from March 25th to 26th when his father’s condition was not getting any better, they had to call an ambulance service to transport him to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH) where he was reportedly handled once more by unsuspecting doctors and nurses.
According to reports, Obuor did not disclose details of his father’s possible exposure to Covid-19 in the UK and therefore the medical team that treated the sick father did not take precaution against Covid-19 in what has sparked a massive backlash against Obuor.
In his response in a statement written on March 27, 2020-the same day his father died, Obuor wrote: “Why would I inform the ambulance team of his travel history and Covid test and refuse to give same details at the hospital? Let’s even assume without admitting that in the heat of everything escalated by the fear of losing my beloved father, I forgot to mention it to the hospital staff. Did the ambulance team also forget to give details?”
However, his behaviour during the whole ordeal has led medical officers at bothe the Ridge Hospital and the GARH to conclude that Obuor negligently exposed them all to a possible Covid-19 infection.
One doctor, Obuor was asked to be quarantined after it became apparent that he has also been exposed to Covid-19, but he refused, saying he was Negative, jumped into his car and sped off.
Another doctor from the GARH called Emmanuel Addipa-Adapoe, described on his Facebook page how Obuor, having realised his father had died of Covid-19, had tried to steal his body away in the thick of the night.
“Please tell the gentleman (Obuor) at the centre of the controversy of the Covid-19 spread at GARH (Ridge Hospital) that CCTV cameras at the GARH picked him and there are eyewitnesses who can attest to his coming in the thick of the night to try and sneak out the body of his father from the morgue. Tell him to stop that hooliganism. Please call him to order. We don’t want to be angry,” Emmanuel Addipa-Adapoe narrated.