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The EMT who narrowly escaped death during a highway robbery that resulted in the death of an ambulance driver, Abraham Tetteh, is demanding justice for the late colleague.
Rachel Owusu, who was attacked, in an exclusive interview with Citi News, recounted the harrowing experience that the team running to save the life of a woman in labor and her fetus, went through at the hands of robbers who led the driver to suffer two gunshot wounds and one to the eye.
She demands state protection for emergency medical technicians and justice for the deceased who is survived by a wife and two young children.
“What I can tell the government is that our work is risky and we need justice. We need justice for our officer. The government must come for us. Not only the police and the army need justice. That is all I can say to the government. We need help and justice ”, he appealed.
The Eastern Regional Administrative Deputy Manager of the National Ambulance Service, Felix Owusu, led a delegation to the family of the late Abraham Tetteh in Somanya on Saturday to officially inform them of their son’s passing and commiserate with them.
The deceased, Abraham Tetteh, a member and instrumentalist of the Central Assembly of the Pentecost Church in Somanya, left a wife and two children.
For the family, only justice can heal their pain.
Vida Tei, widow of the deceased who could not hold back her tears, kept denying. She appealed to the government to help her care for the children.
“I was saving many lives. So the government should come and support me. He was my everything. We have lost everything. How can I live and care for children without my husband? “she declared.
Eight suspected armed robbers shot Abraham Tetteh in the eye and extorted money from his other Asesseso colleagues in the Eastern Region.
Staff were transferring a woman in labor and her relative from Akuse Government Hospital to Koforidua Regional Hospital when the assault occurred.
the unconscious The driver was transferred to Korle Bu University Hospital on life support in the facility’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
However, he died on Saturday, February 6, 2021.
Staff from the National Ambulance Service in the Eastern Region say they live in fear of following them.
— citinewsroom
