The opening ceremony of the 17th Biennial Delegates Congress, of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) at Dodowa on Tuesday, came to an abrupt end, due to the inability of the keynote Speaker, Mrs Samira Bawumia to continue with her address.
The GRNMA congress, which is being held at the Forest Hotel at Dodowa in Greater Accra from November 25 to 29, 2019 is to take major decisions to address challenges facing the profession that affect quality care delivery.
After the opening addresses and a welcome address by the Chief Nursing Officer for Greater Accra, Madam Cecilia Obeng Peprah, it was the turn of Mrs Bawumia who had been sitting since the beginning of the programme to deliver her keynote address.
Around 12 midday, Mrs Bawumia mounted the dais to deliver her address but a few minutes into it, she requested for water.
After drinking the water, she complained of dizziness and was momentarily seen going down.
Her aides and security detail rushed to hold her and administered the necessary first aid whilst the perimeter was cordoned off.
A stretcher was quickly drawn from one of the vehicles in the Second Lady’s convoy.
Mrs Bawumia was cordoned off and later conveyed to one of the vehicles before the convoy moved out of the hotel.
The opening ceremony came to an abrupt end and the invited guests including the Deputy Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mrs Elizabeth Sackey and delegates had to disperse from the auditorium of the hotel.
Some of the nurses in the auditorium told Graphic Online that there was so much heat in the room where the programme was being held.
Graphic Online understands the Second Lady has not been well lately as a result of which she has had to cancel some recent public engagements but was desirous of attending this particular event to support the nurses and midwives.
In a post on Facebook later on, Mrs Bawumia wrote: "I am grateful to the professionals present, for their timely intervention after I succumbed to the heat at the conference venue. Thank you all for the well-wishes."
Source: Daily Graphic
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FLY THE LADY OUT FOR TREATMENT.I DON'T THINK HEAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE. AS A FULANI FROM THE SAHELIAN AFRICAN COUNTRY SUCH AS BENIN, MALI, SUDAN AND SO ON, HER BODY AND BLOOD ARE ACCLIMATIZED TO HEAT.
I smell pregnancy. Baby on the way. Hurray!!!
If it is not heat then what? Foul play or sabotage? That is what the superstitious will say ;they will say it is not simple yet at the same time they can't prove to us how complicated it is either! The lady collapsed as the environment she was in was totally different from the cozy, fully-airconditioned ones she is accustomed to, simple. Don't compare the strength of Notherners to someone who is not even allowed to hold a shopping basket when shopping let alone work in the burning sun! Northerners are a special breed!
WE THANK GOD FOR YOUR LIFE
Thers more heat in the northern and upper regions than Dpdpwa so heat would definitely not be the issue. We need a professional medical diagnosis that this simplification.
Heat is our daily life. Your life good oo madam... ***barred word*** farm comes to mind
Small heat nooooor fiam! That is the daily bread of most Ghanaians currently in this country. I even believe it was the best of what they could give in terms of making the environment conducive enough for the event. Shaa, thank God you are alive ooo. Hope this shapes the unwieldy and impoverishing policies your husband and that bald-headed ediot are churning out for Ghanaians! Collapsing banks without adequate measures in place to handle the fall-out. Engaging in propaganda to tell people you have released money to secure depositors funds whilst in reality people are dying of raw hunger!
The security details of the vice President's wife on that day should all be sacked. This is serious! They don't understand security at all! How about if the whole thing was a orchestrated?. Madam Samira please next time speak up, when the environment you find yourself is not conducive; be like Nana Konadu.