Management of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has vehemently debunked claims that a Chinese prisoner escaped during treatment at the hospital.
The Chinese national, who was serving a one-year sentence at Nsawam Prison for theft and other serious offenses had escaped.
The incident occurred after the individual allegedly feigned illness and was subsequently transferred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for medical attention on Wednesday, February 7, 2024.
However, in a statement posted on its Facebook handle and signed by its Head of Public Relations, Mustapha Salifu, the hospital explained that the prisoner left the hospital in the company of two prison guards.
“After the X-ray, he was given a brief on the procedure to be done for him, which was estimated to cost GHc606. However, he did not have sufficient funds to undergo treatment immediately and was therefore rescheduled to come back for the procedure on 9th February 2024. The prisoner therefore left the clinic and the Hospital in the company of the two prison guards. We have since not set eyes on him until we heard about his escape in sections of the media. It is therefore not true that the prisoner escaped while receiving care in the Hospital.”
Read below the statement by Korle Bu
Chinese Prison Inmate Did Not Escape from Korle Bu
1) On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at about 8:00am, a Chinese inmate from the Nsawam Prison named Wang Xiao and 39years of age, visited the Dental Clinic of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, accompanied by two Prison Guards.
2) Upon arrival, we noticed that the prisoner was without handcuffs and was not rightly uniformed in the usual inmate attire.
3) He was processed at the Registration Unit and he paid a fee of GHc167 as a non-Ghanaian.
4) He then proceeded to the Consulting room where he was examined and an X-ray was requested to aid further management.
5) Wang Xiao, still unhand-cuffed, together with the Prison Guards, proceeded to have the X-ray taken.
6) After the X-ray, he was given a brief on the procedure to be done for him, which was estimated to cost GHc606.
7) However, he did not have sufficient funds to undergo treatment immediately and was therefore rescheduled to come back for the procedure on 9th February 2024.
8) The prisoner therefore left the clinic and the Hospital in the company of the two prison guards.
9) We have since not set eyes on him until we heard about his escape in sections of the media.
10) It is therefore not true that the prisoner escaped while receiving care in the Hospital.
Signed
Mustapha Salifu
Head of Public Relations
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