Seasoned journalist and host of the Citi Breakfast Show, Bernard Avle, has poured his outrage at Ghana’s medical system after the death of a hit-and-run victim who was turned away by three hospitals in Accra.
Bernard Avle stressed that a medical professional who refuses to provide care for sick or injured people brought to the hospital are evil person.
According to Bernard Avle, who recounted a similar event of a 70-year-old man in 2018 who went to seven hospitals before passing away in his car, highlighting that it been eight years but there have been no serious shifts in the operational policy.
He stressed that Doctors and nurses need to have empathy, but in Ghana, many people are in the medical field just because of money.
Speaking on Citi FM, an irate Benard Avle stated, “How can a society sit down for such a thing to happen and not put in place any systems? You covered a 70-year-old man who went to seven hospitals in 2018. From 2018 to 2026 is eight years, have there been any serious shifts in the operational policy of hospitals to show that we value life? We don’t most people who enter this profession are just looking for money, that is what we do.
Shame on you, shame on you, Pastors Sunday preach about these things, Preach about it that if you are a nurse and somebody is brought to your hospital and you don’t care about the person and the person dies, you are an evil person.
If you are a Doctor who does not care about someone’s death because you claim… You don’t know anything; your training is incomplete. Empathy is part of your training”.
Benard Avle further added, “I was even told that the first step towards doing a certain kind of thinking is empathy, because before you can solve someone’s problem, you must know how they are feeling. There is no empathy, the society collectively has lost the plot, we do not value human live what we value is to be seen to be good people”.
Seasoned journalist and host further bemoan how Ghana’s system, be it the Hospital, Court, or Police are structured to frustrate a person with no money.
“There is a lot of hypocrisy in the society, because there are society that are less religious than us, who preserve human lives and organise their systems to make sure that nobody dies a stupid death and whether you go to court, you go to the police, you to the hospital, the whole system is structured to frustrate you if you do not have money”, he added.
Bernard Avle’s outburst follows the news that a victim of a hit-and-run incident at Nkrumah Circle Overpass in Accra was refused emergency care by three major hospitals in Accra due to no vacant beds.
According to reports, for close to three hours on February 6, 2026, the victim was denied treatment by Ridge, Police, and Korle Bu hospitals before passing away.
He was later identified as 29-year-old Charles Amissah, an engineer working at Promasidor Ghana Limited, producers of Cowbell milk and other food products.
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"If you are a medical professional and someone is brought to your hospital, and you don't care that the person dies, you are an evil person. Your training is incomplete because empathy is part of your training." – @benkoku takes on Ghana's medical system after the death of a… pic.twitter.com/ayYC8F0qTQ
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