Togolese held at UG Medical Hospital over debt

A 55-years-old Togolese, Roland Kesu is in the custody of the University of Ghana Medical Hospital for his inability to pay his bills after treatment.

The young man, who cannot speak English, is been held at the hospital for owing an amount of Three Thousand, Nine Hundred and Twenty Four Ghana cedis at the time of writing this report.

However, his continuous stay at the hospital accrues increasing debts by the day.

He currently owes the hospital more than Five Thousand Ghana cedis.

According to a kind Ghanaian, he met Kesu at the health facility, seeking support to be freed from the hospital.

“I had gone to visit my father on admission at the hospital where I met Kisu at the ward.

The anonymous kind man told crimecheckghana.org that Roland Kisu was a tailor in Togo when another Ghanaian man convinced him to come and work in Ghana.

While working in Ghana, Kisu 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 have been unsuccessful and now has been detained at the hospital.

He is at the mercy of nurses and other patients on admission to the hospital to be able to feed and provide for his upkeep.

 Kesu pleads for support to enable him to gain his freedom.

Crime Check Foundation (CCF) is appealing to the general public to contribute to pay for the freedom of Kesu who has been at the hospital for days.

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.