{"id":4384,"date":"2024-03-28T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:48:12","slug":"no-lives-were-lost-due-to-tuesdays-power-outage-tema-general-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No lives were lost due to Tuesday\u2019s power outage\u2019 \u2013 Tema General Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Tema General Hospital has dispelled reports that a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/3news.com\/news\/3-day-old-baby-dead-after-dumsor-at-tema-general-hospital\/\">three-day-old baby died<\/a>&nbsp;due to the power outage at the facility on Tuesday night, March 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hospital in a statement issued on March 27 confirmed the power outage at the hospital but said \u201cno lives were lost as a result of this power outage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It explained that a generator set dedicated to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) \u201ctripped off for a short period\u201d during the outage but was worked on and power was restored to the unit before the national grid restored power to the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hospital clarified that after the power cut, the facility\u2019s electricians restored power to the facility within two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Tema General Hospital assures the general public that the Facility will continue to put the health and safety of its patients at the core of its business,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tema-Damage-Control-784x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tema-Damage-Control-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tema-Damage-Control-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tema-Damage-Control-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tema-Damage-Control-750x979.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Tema-Damage-Control.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ramatu, a 24-year-old woman told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\">TV3 in an interview<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday, March 27 said she lost her three day old baby as a result of the power cut at the facility on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said she was informed by doctors at the Tema hospital that she lost her baby as a result of the power cut at the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was supposed to go and visit my baby around 4 am this morning [Wednesday] so when I went there, I could not find my baby and the doctor told me to wait outside so I was outside and he came that they are sorry because I have lost my child due to the light out last night [Tuesday Night],\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fishfmonline.com\">TV3\u2019s Joseph Armstrong Gold Alorgbey.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tema General Hospital has dispelled reports that a&nbsp;three-day-old baby died&nbsp;due to the power outage at the facility on Tuesday night, March 26. The Hospital in a statement issued on March 27 confirmed the power outage at the hospital but said \u201cno lives were lost as a result of this power outage.\u201d It explained that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[1436],"class_list":["post-4384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-health","tag-tema-general-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4387,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}