The story of how a 23-year-old Verma Marie Annan died last week is deeply shocking and sad.
Apart from the fact that such a beautiful young lady with great future prospects has passed on so soon, the below allegation that two prominent health centres in Ghana were grossly negligent and contributed or caused to her death makes her death an incident of public interest.
Read below Hon. Daniel Dugan has told the story–as found on Nana Kwesi Sei-Nkansah’s facebook wall:
“Today, I wish to dedicate my page to young and beautiful Verma Marie Annan, a twenty-three year old woman and graduate of University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, who packed bag and baggage and left to Heaven on Sunday, November 20, 2016, the Feast of Christ the King. Her freak demise has opened up a debate on Social Media about the need to do a lot of medical research in this country:
The Verma Marie Annan Memorial Medical Research
Sometime on or about Wednesday November 2, 2016, All Souls Day, Verma, led by her loving mother, Yvette, reported at the State Insurance Corporation (SIC) medical facility on the Kojo Thompson Road called Bob Freeman Clinic. She was not feeling well and was diagnosed as having contracted malaria.
The twenty-three year old graduant was allegedly given an injection of a yet to be disclosed antimalarial drug. She was then put on Coatem, a very powerful antimalarial tablet which has claimed at least one life that I know of, Paa Kow Painstil. Verma obediently started the dosage when she got home. Then she would throw up and swallow blood. By Sunday, her sweet mother was becoming alarmed, and so on Monday November, 7, 2016 they were back to the Bob Freeman Clinic. Immediately the nurses saw the sweet beauty, they decided not to handle her case and insisted that no doctor was around.

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