A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge.

The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, having been declared dead by paramedics following a road accident.

Ambulance company Distress Alert said she had shown “no form of life”, South Africa’s TimesLive website reports.

But when a morgue worker returned to check on the body in the fridge, he found the woman was breathing.

An official has confirmed to the BBC the woman is now being treated in a hospital east of Johannesburg after being referred by forensics officers. She has not been named.

An investigation into the incident is being carried out, with the family demanding answers.

“As a family we won’t talk about this unless the police, paramedics and the mortuary officials who were involved are present. We need answers,” a family member told the BBC, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The man said the family was in shock.

“The issue is that we need answers, that’s all we want and we don’t have any clarity now,” he added.

Distress Alert operations manager Gerrit Bradnick said there was “no proof of any negligence” on his company’s behalf.

“This did not happen because our paramedics are not properly trained,” he told TimesLive.

Mr Bradnick told TimesSelect she was one of several people involved in a car accident which left two others dead on Sunday, 24 June.

This is not the first time this year someone has woken up in a mortuary after being declared dead.

In January an inmate at a jail in Spain’s Asturias region regained consciousness hours before an autopsy was due to be performed.

Three doctors had certified him dead.

It is also not the first time this has happened in South Africa. Seven years ago, a 50-year-old man woke up screaming in an Eastern Cape morgue. In 2016 another road accident victim, from KwaZulu Natal, was declared dead, only to be found breathing the next day.

He died five hours after the discovery.

Source: BBC

The Health Ministry has hinted it is to receive 275 new ambulances from the Special Development initiative ministry.

The revelation was made by the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry Robert Cudjoe. He however failed to disclose when exactly the ambulances will be delivered.

The discussion on inadequate ambulances in the country has been rekindled following the sudden death of former Vice President Amissah-Arthur who collapsed at the gym last Friday.

According to eyewitnesses, the ailing vice president was conveyed to the 37 military hospital in a pickup vehicle because there was no ambulance.

The health ministry however says the news about the lack of ambulance in the case of Mr. Amissah-Arthur’s death just reached them today, July 3,2018.

“When the Late Veep passed on last Friday, there was no information on the lack of ambulance. It is this morning that we heard that there was no ambulance to convey the Veep to the hospital. We are expecting about 275 ambulances to beef up what we already have. We are expecting the 275 ambulances from the Special Development Initiative Ministry,” he said.

Ghana with over 30 million population currently has 155 ambulances, 100 of which have broken down.

The remaining 55, are stationed in various parts of the country to offer emergency health responses and basic life support.

The National Headquarters of the Ambulance Service in Accra has only four ambulances. The statistics indicate that 1 ambulance is shared by over 520,000 Ghanaians.

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The Deputy General Secretary of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Michael Ayuraboya, has said executives of the Teachers Unions were still in talks with government when news of the GH¢10 deduction got to them.

According to him, the association was in the process of understanding certain sections of the insurance policy, the role of government and educating members on the policy when they received letters from the Ghana Education Service (GES).

The GES had begun implementing the life insurance policy christened “GES-SIC LIFE GROUP LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAMME” – for all teachers which saw a deduction of GH¢10 from June salaries.

Initially, the policy was said to have been crafted in consultation with the Teacher Unions.

However, the Teachers Unions have kicked against the insurance policy, describing it as unlawful and needless.

Speaking on Day Break Upper East on A1 Radio Tuesday, Mr. Ayuraboya said following the suspension of the deductions after their agitations, the Teacher Unions are poised for further discussions and proper sensitization of member Teachers.

He stated after all necessities have been in place, teachers who wish to join the policy can then go ahead.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has suspended deductions from the salaries of teachers at the pre-tertiary Level and other staff for the life insurance policy.

The policy has been suspended with immediate effect according to statement from the Public Relations Officer of GES. Plans to refund deducted monies have also been enacted.

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The Talensi District Chief Cxecutive, Dr. Christopher Boatbil, has said the provision of water and good sanitary conditions are two important issues that must be given much seriousness.

According to Dr. Boatbil, his understanding of their importance and the disadvantages within our environments has dawned on him the need to provide some amenities in that regard, hence his provision of water systems in six communities in the Talensi District of Upper east region.

In an exclusive interview with A1 radio, Dr. Boatbil noted that apart from the water systems he and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government have provided for the people of Talensi within one year in office, the district is also witnessing the construction of seven 10-seater water closet toilet facilities in some parts of the district.

“Currently the Talensi District since its creation can boast of three Small Town Water System. With the NPP government led by His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, the Talensi district is benefiting from six more but scaled down water system at Sheaga, Datoku, Tongo Beo, Gorugo, Pusunamogo and Baare.

“Through the negotiations of the district assembly, the district benefited from a multi-purpose water system for domestic and irrigation from Accra Brewery at Tindongo”.

He adds that the assembly has started a clean-up exercise in all the electoral areas of the district to ensure environmental cleanliness. This, he said being done with his help.

“The assembly is started clean-up exercises in all the electoral areas of the district. This will be done electoral area by electoral area on some announced dates. The essence is to clean the environment, educate the population about the essence of environmental cleanings and ways that they should adopt to ensure cleanliness. Two of our environmental officers have been sent for two weeks training on how to prosecute environmentally related offences”.

The Legislator hints of successful negotiations to get the Catholic Relief Service to provide the district with 34 boreholes across the district. Central government he said has further made an allocation of 20 additional boreholes to the districts.

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The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, is expected to appear before Parliament’s Privileges Committee today, Tuesday, 3 July for allegedly denigrating the House.

Mr Agyapong has been accused of making contemptuous statements against the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu.

The hearing will be opened to the public.

A statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs of Parliament, Kate Addo, on Thursday June 28 said: “The Committee of Privileges is scheduled to hold public hearing of Hon Member of Parliament for Assin Central constituency Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong on the alleged breach of privilege and contemptuous conduct.

“The hearing will take place on Tuesday 3rd July 2018 at the Committee Rooms 1 and 2, New Administration Block at 2pm.

“Hon Kennedy Agyapong was referred to the Privileges Committee of Parliament over his purported contemptuous utterances against Parliament and Majority Leader Hon Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Osei.

“The Committee is expected to report their findings and recommendations to plenary after the hearing for necessary actions and follow up.”

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Majority Leader and Minister for parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has claimed that two NDC members of Parliament have secretly registered for the Ghana card contrary to the collective stance of the minority on the issue.

In an interview with Starr News’ Ibrahim Alhassan, Mr. Mensah-Bonsu said the two begged the NIA officials not to disclose their identities.

He however added that the individuals in question are different from the earlier photos that popped up on social media bearing the names of some MPs.

“Even when they are making that passionate appeal, some of them have gone ahead and registered. Last Friday when I went there to do my own, there were two of them with me. I won’t mention their names because they themselves had indicated to the officers that they shouldn’t unveil their identities which explains why they didn’t do it at where the people were doing it near the chamber.

“They chose to come to the restaurant to do it. Why did they opt to come to the restaurant? They wanted to have some secrecy. I wont mention their names now until push comes to shove,” he claimed.

The Minority has maintained using passports and birth certs alone as proof of identity for acquisition of the card will de-nationalise many Ghanaians since scores in the rural areas of the country do not have either of the requirement. They have therefore refused to register for the cards and called on their members to also stay off.

Meanwhile, former President John Kufuor has backed calls by the Minority saying the Voter ID card must be added to the requirements for the Ghana card.

“Documents that will help identify a citizen as a citizen will be sovereign authority in him or her so if your voter ID is not incorporated…I think it should be added,” the former President noted when officials of the National Identification Authority went to his home to register him for the card

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A former Presidential staffer under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration, Stan Dogbe has taken a swipe at Okyehene Amoatia Ofori Panin II who disclosed how former Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur was taken to the 37 military hospital before his death.

Lashing out at the Paramount chief of Akyem Abuakwa, Stan Dogbe described the revered chief’s narration as an attempt to score cheap popularity.

In a video posted on Facebook, the Okyehene is heard saying the former Vice President who died on Friday, 29 June 2018, was transported to the hospital at the back of a pick-up, when efforts to revive him failed.
According to the Okyehene, there was no ambulance to convey the former vice president to the 37 Military Hospital — where he was pronounced dead.

“As it’s been for 14 years, any time I go there, I meet my friend and we’ll talk, shake hands … and then go to our different machines… I heard ‘bang’! Three women in the gym were screaming, I left my machine and went and there laid my friend trying to find some air to breathe.

We gathered around him and pumped his heart as hard as we could, yelled out his name; his wife was calling out: ‘Jesus, save him!’ I just said: ‘call the ambulance, let’s take him to the hospital.’ There were about seven, eight of us, and something dawned on me. When we took him out, there was no ambulance, there was no car, so we threw the former vice-president in the back of a pick-up and drove off to 37” he narrated

But Stan Dogbe who labelled the narration as a ‘coloured popularity seeking story’ has questioned why the Chief did not send the late former Vice President to the hospital in his car.

Stan Dogbe argued that, the Okyehene “had a luxury vehicle there, and many others had their cars there, if he had a good heart and a spirit of helping others, maybe; just maybe, he would have sent him to the hospital in his car.”

He further urged the Paramount chief to “cease the recklessness of seeking cheap popularity by going to public events and seeking to share coloured stories. Granted that he was sent to the hospital in someone’s vehicle, a pick-up, is the back seat of the vehicle, the bucket of the pick-up as his statement sort to portray. Which gym in this country has a standby ambulance anyway?

Your ‘son’, Nana Addo is watching on as the National Ambulance Service collapses… deal with it and leave the family of our late boss to mourn their son, husband, grandpa, father, uncle and relation.”

Source: ghnanaweb.com