PBL, M.D🩺

Your biggest flex this year?

When people ask why I talk so much about our healthcare system, especially emergency care, this is why. I know what it feels like to lose someone you love in a system that is too slow, too fragmented, and too weak to save them. I was deployed on a United Nations peacekeeping duty in Mali as a medical officer in charge of Ghana’s military unit, serving my country, when my mother had an emergency back home. That day remains the most devastating day of my life. I was on the phone for hours as they moved from one hospital to another, searching for help, searching for a system that could respond, searching for a place that could save her. By the time they reached Komfo Anokye, it was too late. I felt completely helpless. So when I speak about emergency care, I am not speaking from theory. I am speaking from personal loss. I am speaking from the memory of being hundreds of miles away, serving my country, while my country could not save the most precious person in my life. The detailed accounts of this incident will perhaps need a whole book. That is why I do not take these issues lightly. A broken emergency care system does not care how educated you are. It does not care how connected you are. It does not care how much money you have. When the system is broken, everyone is vulnerable. If you think your status, money, or connections will save you in a collapsing emergency system, keep deceiving yourself. We are all only seconds away from becoming victims. That is why this conversation matters to me. Not as politics. (not NPP vs NDC) But as something deeply personal. Today is someone, tomorrow it might be you

Made Mama smile and that’s all I ever prayed for🙏❤️

Rest well my God on earth, you will always be in my heart. Keep smiling Mama💔