The Medical Superintendent of the Ejura Government Hospital, Dr Mensah Manye says the two victims who died in last week’s incident at Ejura in the Ashanti Region sustained gun shot wounds that penetrated their bodies from the back.
Appearing before the three-member committee probing the security handling of the incident, Dr Manye said the gun shot injuries on the two, were indicative that the bullets penetrated from the back of the deceased persons.
He said the first person he attended to and died had the wound at the left upper chest, penetrating into the chest.
Later identified as Abdul Nassir Yussif, he said he was brought in dead.
He said there was also an injury at the left shoulder joint with a fracture, meaning the left arm was fractured or broken.
He said that the gun shot injury was at the back of left upper chest.
Dr Manye said there was also an injury at the left shoulder with a fracture in the left arm. He said the victim had passed on and so he covered him and left him, having seen the sort of injury he had.
Second victim
“I quickly rushed to the second person. The second person, what I saw was also at the back, at the middle part of the chest, the left area, there was an injury, gun shot injury at the middle part of the chest.”
Clarifying, Dr Manye said the entry was at the back of the second person, Muntala Ibrahim, who was brought in alive.
He said all their cloths were soaked with blood.
He said the second one was getting into shock, collapsing, gasping, sweating profusely with a very fast rate of pulse.
“We quickly resuscitated, giving enough fluid, ordering for blood and the necessary oxygen to be given in order to revive the client,” Dr Manye added.
He said due to the profuse bleeding, the patient looked pale which obviously showed that there was an internal bleeding. While resuscitating with the nurses, everybody running here and there, we lost the patient within 10 minutes of arrival. He said there was an internal injury with internal bleeding, internal organ damage precisely around the lung so that one also passed on.
Other injured persons
He said they left him and concentrated on the other injured persons who had been brought in.
On the injured persons he said one of them, Louis sustained a gunshot injury at the back, at the right just above the waist, into the abdomen, precisely the lower part of the pelvic region.
He was bleeding profusely due to the extent of bleeding and when I probed, and when I saw where the injury was going, I knew internally there were more damage than what we were seeing physically and so I called for an ambulance.
