Ghana: Doctor Transports Baby Delivered Via C-Section In Toyota Pickup Truck

As if our report last month about pregnant women and sick patients being transported by tricycles in Ghana was not enough and fell on deaf ears. Today, we’re again compelled to report another sad incident involving the lack of ambulance in Ghana’s health sector.

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A medical doctor, Emmanuel Addipa-Adapoe, has shared a very heartbreaking account on his Facebook page of how he had to transport a baby delivered via Cesarean section at the back of a Toyota Hilux pickup truck.

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According to him, the lack of ambulance to transport the newly delivered baby necessitated a make-shift ambulance for that purpose.

His full statement reads as follows:

This is the mode in which I have had to carry a 2-day old baby from my hospital to Koforidua this morning.

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Baby delivered via Caesarean section on account of Severe Preeclampsia and meconium stained liquor.

Baby has severe birth Asphyxia and we have done well on resuscitation so far but the child needs a NICU.

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I have duly referred
I fell on a friend who loaned us his latest Toyota Hilux pick up
I improvised an ambulance like in the picture
I picked up my ambubag and penguin for periodic supplementary oxygenation and suctioning respectively.

We have arrived at Ekye and are waiting for the Pontoon for another 20 minutes crossing on the Volta lake to Adawso en route to the Easten Regional Hospital Koforidua.

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Please say a prayer for us.

This is the mode in which I have had to carry a 2-day old baby from my hospital to Koforidua this morning. Baby…

Posted by Emmanuel Addipa-Adapoe on Sunday, September 29, 2019

Source: AfricaCelebrities.com