A medical doctor has allegedly poisoned a colleague’s drinking water with HIV- infected blood following a disagreement between the two.
The two doctors whose names were not mentioned, work at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra In Ghana.
Graphic Online reported that on May, 6, at about 11:30am, a medical doctor, accompanied by the lawyer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Mr Kwame Gyamfi, filed a complaint at the charge office of the Korle Bu District Police station regarding an attempt to poison the doctor’s drinking water.
The medical doctor told the police that he was on a 24-hour duty with six other doctors at the Labour Ward 1 of the hospital.
At the end of the 24-hour shift, the medical doctor allegedly returned to his consulting room and detected that his drinking water which he kept in a water bottle in the room was contaminated after he found a reddish substance which appeared like blood in the water.
Based on the doctor’s suspicion, the water in the bottle was clinically tested and it was found that the substance was blood.
When the blood was later tested, it came out positive for HIV.
The medical doctor told the police that he suspected one of his colleagues and gave his name to the police.
He claimed that the two of them had some disagreement while they were on duty at the labour ward.
The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Regional Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mrs Effia Tenge, confirmed that they had received such information and that it was under investigation.
