Ankaase Methodist Hospital Staff Demand Justice For Colleague Murdered By Armed Robbers

Management and Staff of the Methodist Hospital at Ankaase in the Afugyaa Kwabre South District of the Ashanti Region are threatening to lay down their tools after a colleague of theirs was shot dead by armed robbers almost two weeks ago.

This morning, unhappy Nurses, Doctors and other ancillary staff of the Hospital in red arm bands, held a press conference and demanded that the killers of Dr. Stephen Nyamekye, senior biomedical scientist with the Hospital, be brought to book.

The angry staff also demanded the beefing up of security in the area where armed robbers have so far shot five staff of the Hospital, and also fix the un-motorable Hemang road which they say contributes to the crime climate in the area.

“Our problem is that we have been having a series of armed robbery attacks and the appropriate stakeholders have been informed. We are saying that if nothing is done on the road network, the nature of the road network is very bad, and the incessant armed robbery attacks, if nothing is done, then we shall seek thye permission of the Christian Health Association of Ghana and the Methodists Church and the regional director of Health and suspend our services,” said Dr. A. Seth Medical Director of the Hospital at the Press conference.

At the conference, the preganant widow of the slayed doctor and her two children were in attendance.

Dr. Stephen Nyamekye had been on his way home after going on assignment when armed robbers gunned him down, it is not clear if the robbers had subsequently ransacked his person.

He was rushed to the Hospital at Ankaase but was later referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi where he died from his wounds.

According to his distraught colleagues, in the lead up to his killing, the robbers had earlier shot five of their staff. The incidents had been reported to the Police but nothing has since been done about the prevailing armed robbery situation in the area.