{"id":174764,"date":"2024-06-18T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ghs-suspends-winneba-trauma-specialist-hospital-medical-director-over-death-of-patient-in-bush\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:21:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:21:09","slug":"ghana-ghs-suspends-winneba-trauma-specialist-hospital-medical-director-over-death-of-patient-in-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ghs-suspends-winneba-trauma-specialist-hospital-medical-director-over-death-of-patient-in-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Ghs Suspends Winneba Trauma, Specialist Hospital Medical Director &#8230; Over Death of Patient in Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has suspended the Medical Director of the Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital, Dr George Prah, pending conclusion of an investigation of alleged abandonment of a patient in a bush at Gomoa Ojobi leading to her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The GHS has set up a committee to investigate the matter and report findings within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">A viral picture on June 13, revealed a woman wrapped in sheets and left in a bush with a wheelchair by her side after she was dumped in the bush by an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406180383.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has suspended the Medical Director of the Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital, Dr George Prah, pending conclusion of an investigation of alleged abandonment of a patient in a bush at Gomoa Ojobi leading to her death. The GHS has set up a committee to investigate the matter and report findings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7066,6974,400,4508,4509,13021,6362,7417,257,13447,254,9971,10452,20406,48808],"class_list":["post-174764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bush","tag-death","tag-director","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghs","tag-hospital","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-patient","tag-south-africa-today","tag-specialist","tag-suspends","tag-trauma","tag-winneba"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}