A medical doctor has sued three major Ghanaian health facilities, several medical professionals, and the Attorney General at the High Court in Accra, seeking GH¢20 million in damages over the tragic death of her 29-year-old brother, Charles Henry Amissah.
Dr Matilda Amissah, acting as the administratrix of the late electronic engineer’s estate, alleges that a catastrophic chain of medical negligence and the persistent “No Bed Syndrome” led to her brother’s preventable death following a hit-and-run accident in February 2026.
The lawsuit follows a scathing government-appointed committee report chaired by Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa.
Released earlier this month, the report concluded that timely interventions could have saved Amissah’s life and cited “serious lapses” across all three institutions.
The writ names the Ghana Police Hospital, Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge), Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, specific doctors and nurses, and the Attorney General’s Department as defendants.
According to the statement of claim, Charles Henry Amissah, an engineer with Promasidor Ghana Limited, was a victim of a hit-and-run on the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Overpass at approximately 10:30 p.m. on February 6, 2026. He remained alive for more than two hours while being shuttled between medical facilities.
The plaintiff claims the National Ambulance Service first rushed the heavily bleeding engineer to the Police Hospital, where staff refused admission due to a lack of beds and denied requests to even administer stabilising first aid.
The ambulance then proceeded to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital and finally to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital; both facilities allegedly declined immediate care on identical grounds of unavailable bed space.
Amissah suffered cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at Korle-Bu at approximately 12:50 a.m.
A post-mortem examination later cited the cause of death as severe blood loss (exsanguination), deep lacerations, and fractures.
Further compounding the family’s grief, the suit alleges that when relatives located Amissah four days later, his body had been left outside the cold room at the Korle-Bu mortuary in a decomposing, maggot-infested state. The decomposition was so severe it prevented the family from laying him in state during his funeral.
Dr Amissah is accusing the defendants of failing to provide basic emergency triage, failing to stabilise a critical patient, and failing to perform vital assessments.
She notes the loss has caused immense emotional and financial hardship, as her brother was the primary financial support for their widowed mother.
The defendants have been given eight days from the service of the writ to enter an appearance or face a default judgment.