From Emmanuel Modey, Hohoe
A 12-year-old girl, Comfort Mensah of Likpe Bala in the Hohoe Municipality in the Volta Region, whose left foot was amputated after she had been bitten by a snake, has received help from a good Samaritan.
Comfort, who attends school at Gbi Godenu, near Hohoe where her parents are farmers, was detained at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for her inability to pay her medical fees. The good Samaritan stepped in, paid her bills and sent her to Nsawam, where she has been given an artificial limb. This was after a publication in a national weekly about her plight and detention.
Comfort’s wound was not treated properly after the snake bite and that resulted in her left leg being amputated to save her life.
Her plight was brought to the notice of this reporter at Hohoe who quickly arranged for her to be sent to the Hohoe Hospital for treatment. At the hospital, she was referred to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
Sadly, her parents said they did not have any money so this reporter had to appeal to the Hohoe Municipal Assembly which gave her GH¢100.00 to facilitate the processing of her National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) card and one of their pick-up vehicles to take her to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for further treatment.
Though the Dodzi Foundation, an NGO at Ve Golokuati in the Hohoe Municipality, had also given them some money for her treatment, after her discharge, when she could not immediately pay her bills, she was detained in the Mother’s House at Korle Bu.
During the detention, she had to hobble about on one leg due to the amputation whenever she wanted to go anywhere.
Luckily, a good Samaritan came to her aid, paid all her bills and sent her to the Nsawam Limb Fitting Centre where he was provided with new limb to help her move around.
The good Samaritan, to ensure that her education was not halted, has also enrolled her at the Sankis Preparatory School in Hohoe, a boarding school.
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