After several weeks under detention at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UG-MC), Roland Kesu, a tailor from Togo has finally been freed to go home after Crime Check Foundation’s (CCF) intervention.
CCF paid his debt of over Four Thousand-Ghana cedis to get Mr. Kesu’s freedom.
Despite not being fed by the hospital, Mr. Kesu’s debt increased as he continued to stay at the hospital.
As at the time CCF got wind of his predicament, his bill had shot to over Five Thousand-Ghana cedis because of his continuous stay at the health facility.
According to a kind Ghanaian who met the Togolese tailor at the hospital, Roland Kesu was abandoned at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UG-MC) by another Ghanaian who brought him from Togo to work with him in Ghana.
“I had gone to visit my father who was on admission at the hospital where I met Kesu,” the kind man told crimecheckghana.org.
Background
While working in Ghana, Kesu fell sick, and ‘was taken to the hospital by the man who brought him from Togo. After he was admitted, the Ghanaian man fled’.
Efforts by Kesu to reach his colleague were unsuccessful and was under detention at the hospital.
Under CCF’s Health Check Series, many individuals detained at hospitals for their inability to foot their bills got their freedom.
In 2022, the Foundation, with support from its single largest donor, Linda Owusu, gave Sixty Five Thousand Ghana cedis to the management of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in the Ashanti Region to clear the debts of struggling patients.
The Executive Director of CCF, Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, and Madam Owusu met the management of the hospital to hand over the money to them.
This was after Madam Owusu requested the debts of patients who were held at the hospital for their inability to pay for their treatment.
“We call them Medical Prisoners because they have been “detained” for their inability to pay their medical bills. Thanks to our dear sister, Linda Owusu, many of our brothers and sisters at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (most of them in tears) could not believe all their medical bills had been paid by our dear philanthropist.
“She set aside sixty-five thousand cedis to bail all of them. Thanks to the Management of the hospital, especially Prof. Dr. Addai Mensah for allowing us in. We hope to help many patients at KATH, under our Health Check Series. God richly bless you, sister Linda Owusu, Mr. Kwarteng wrote in a Facebook post.
The Health Check Series seeks support for struggling patients.
