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Referral is not death sentence---Sene District doctor

Medical doctor at the Sene West District Hospital, Dr. Samuel Akotiah has given assurance that when a patient is given referral does not mean, the person has been given death sentence.

Date Created : 3/18/2019 4:47:46 AM : Story Author : Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanadistricts.com

According to Dr. Akotiah, there are various levels in medical treatment and that when a patient is brought to Sene West District hospital the needed primary care would be given.

“When we do not have a medical officer to deal with a particular situation a referral is given to I higher hospital with the needed facility same applies to equipment, and should not be mistaken as a death sentence”.

In his remarks, when Member of Parliament for Sene West donated an ambulance to the District hospital, he noted that it would go a long way to help with health delivery.

“Without ambulance we have lost a lot of patients, the ambulance is not just a vehicle, whiles the person is being taken on referral medical care is taking place so by the time the person gets to his or her destination the person would be stabilized”.

He further pointed out that when patient are carried in private vehicles nurses do not wont to join the care and they are back by law, putting a sick person in a private vehicle the police can even arrest you.