The Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh has said her ministry will “take up” the case of an injured Ghanaian Engineer who has been abandoned by Baker Hughes, an American oil and gas services company operating in Ghana and other African countries.<\/p>\n
Andrew Boateng, who is an engineer with Baker Hughes Ghana, was on a rotational work in Congo and Gabon, where he was injured in a terrible accident in Gabon in the company\u2019s vehicle on official duty on April 2014.<\/p>\n
While in coma he was airlifted to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n
He reportedly spent some weeks at the hospital after he regained consciousness and was initially moved to a nursing home and to another home for the aged called Serenity Home, also in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n
Reports indicate that the company stopped catering for his needs after he was transferred to Serenity Home.<\/p>\n
An activist who did not want to be named reported that Andy\u00a0had\u00a0been lying in a poor hospital in South Africa and no family member has visited him for over a year now.<\/p>\n
“He cannot eat, walk and talk. Right now he is in old people\u2019s nursing home and there is no physiotherapy or good nutrition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ghana’s\u00a0Minister of Foreign Affairs\u00a0in a tweet on Monday October 12, indicated that Ghana’s mission has\u00a0received a report on Andy’s situation and will intervene in his situation.<\/p>\n
\n“Now that we have a report from our mission in South Africa the Foreign Ministry will take up the case of Andrews Boateng with Baker Hughes”.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Hanna Tetteh (@HannaTetteh) October 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n–<\/p>\n
By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n