Earlier this evening, Joy FM’s Emefa Apawu reported that an elderly man, who was confirmed as a Covid-19 infected patient passed on at the Ridge Hospital, Accra.
Portions of the report, zionfelix.net also shared stated that he was the father of a popular Ghanaian musician and that the musician failed to disclose his travel history to the hospital when they arrived at the hospital on Thursday evening.
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Well, it turns the musician in question is former MUSIGA president, which is currently contesting to become NPP’s parliamentary candidate in Asante Akyem South, Bice Osei Kuffour, popularly known as Obour.
He made this confirmation in a statement that has been sighted by zionfelix.net.
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The statement from Obour also gave a blow by blow account about how his father, Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour got to the hospital before his sadden demise today, March 27.
Obour shot down speculation that he failed to inform hospital authorities about his father’s travel history, which has exposed the 15 health officials who attended to him to the deadly coronavirus disease.
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Read the full statement
With sadness and a heavy heart I announce the death of Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour my biological father.
Nana returned from UK on 19th March after his yearly visit to the family. Upon his return he was fine but began coughing on Sunday 22nd.
We arranged for his blood sample to be tested and he tested positive for malaria.
We began treatment for malaria but his condition got worse. We arranged to bring him to Accra to be tested for Covid 19 at Ridge Hospital on Wednesday. They informed us that his report will be ready on Friday but we should keep him in quarantine which we did.
On thursday night he had extreme difficulty with breathing so we called the Ambulance service and informed them of his condition. We told them the patient has tested for COVID 19 and awaiting his results so they should come along with appropriate apparel.
The ambulance team took him to Ridge Hospital around 11pm on thursday March 26. We informed the health team at Ridge of his condition and also informed them he had earlier taken a test for Covid and awaiting results.
Late this afternoon , the Drs informed us that he is likely to be a confirmed Covid case and as such we should take steps to do a contact trace and quarantine ourselves. Sadly he passed on this evening.
Under the circumstances I understand nobody can come over to pay their respects and commiserate with our family as we are all on a 14 Day quarantine though I and my assistant who had close contact with him have both tested negative for COVID 19 as at today 27th March.
These are the true facts about my father’s demise.
Bice Obour Osei Kuffour
With sadness and a heavy heart I announce the death of Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour my biological father.
— #Obour4AAS (@obourbice) March 27, 2020
Nana returned from UK on 19th March after his yearly visit to the family. Upon his return he was fine but began coughing on Sunday 22nd.
