Inject all of us so we die if you will not help us – Spokesperson for fellows with renal diseases tells gov’t

Spokesperson for fellows with renal diseases in Ghana, Baffour Ahenkorah has made a passionate appeal to government and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to as a matter of urgency open the dialysis center to the public.

He is also calling on the government to come to their aid following report of some hundred percent increment in the cost of dialysis by the country’s premier medial facility, the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital.

Failure to do the above, he said the government should consider injecting all of them to death so to put an end to their suffering.

Baffour Ahenkorah made the appeal on GhanaTonight on TV3 on Tuesday, October 3, monitored by GhanaPlus.com.

According to him, with the old dialysis charges, patients spend a whopping GH₵4000 to GH₵5000 and more just to survive just in a month adding that the new charges will worsen their already humiliating condition.

He lamented many of them have become pauper and beggars among their friends and family.

“When it was 380, I was doing twice a week. Instead of three, I was doing twice because, I couldn’t pay the three sections. I was doing twice  a week and if am doing the twice a week, every week  I am spending GH₵760 x 4 and that will give you GH₵3040 every week and this is just the dialysis, going on the machine,” Mr Ahenkorah said.

“The injection we take have not come, your labs have not come, your iron have not come, and your transportation have not come. And is not everything that you can eat, we are on a bit of a diet,” he added.

According to him, their predicament have been made worse with the closure of the center adding that lives of his fellow patients are being lost day-in, day-out and called on the government to intervene to ensure it is open to the public.

Already some 15 of his colleagues have died.

“So my brother the government should do something about it and they should open it to the out patients. We are dying. People are suffering. If they will not open it then please we are begging them, they should call all of us and then the Korle-Bu CEO should instruct them to inject all of us so we die. They should kill all of us rather than pretending that they are. We don’t even know what they are doing.

Dialysis prices hikes, Korle-Bu center closed to outpatients

Report emerged some 7days ago that the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has increased the cost of renal dialysis, a life-saving procedure  for persons with kidney diseases from GHS¢380 to GHS¢765.42.

The development which have been met with public outcry, the hospital attributed it high taxes and removal of some subsides by the government.

The center have also been closed to outpatients due to shortage of regents.

Source: GhanaPlus.com