{"id":109548,"date":"2015-04-18T15:11:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=109548"},"modified":"2015-04-18T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T16:22:33","slug":"korle-bu-patient-due-for-surgery-hangs-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=109548","title":{"rendered":"Korle Bu patient due for surgery hangs himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year- old patient, Amarkye Boateng, has committed suicide at the premises of the Korle Bu teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Px2ORQ4CRYg0ap0xe4rbyrBMESghXb1D&#8221;]According to family members, Amarkye who was on admission at the surgical Ward G pending a surgical operation on Tuesday was reportedly missing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The family together with some nurses at the Ward subsequently put up a search for him, only to find Mr Amarkye lifelessly hanging on a mango tree near the in-service training centre of the Korle Bu teaching hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of the Korle Bu Police, DSP Peter Yembilla who narrated the incident to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> said &#8220;the remains has been deposited at the Korle Bu teaching Hospital Morgue pending autopsy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is however yet unclear why the deceased committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Agyeman\/ citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year- old patient, Amarkye Boateng, has committed suicide at the premises of the Korle Bu teaching Hospital. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Px2ORQ4CRYg0ap0xe4rbyrBMESghXb1D&#8221;]According to family members, Amarkye who was on admission at the surgical Ward G pending a surgical operation on Tuesday was reportedly missing on Friday. The family together with some nurses at the Ward subsequently put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-109548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}