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| Kofi Adjorlolo |
According a report posted on peacefmonline.com, tragedy has hit a renowned Ghanaian actor, Kofi Adjorlolo, following the dead of his wife-to-be at a private hospital in Awoshie, a suburb of Accra.
Mr. Adjorlolo’s wife to-be whose name was given as Miss Charity Nyarko passed away into eternal glory on Monday August 22, 2011. The celebrated Ghallywood star had planned to marry 49 year old Charity Nyarko in December this year.
Sources say there was a near melee at the hospital when a group of irate youth in the area where the hospital is located, almost vandalized the health facility. They believed the doctors and nurses at the hospital are culpable for failing to save the life of the young lady.
But for the timely intervention of the bereaved actor, who succeeded in calming the anger of the incensed youth, a different story would have been told as they threatened to burn down the hospital accusing the medical staff of negligence.
A grief-stricken Kofi Adjorlolo confirmed the unfortunate news to Peace FM during the station’s Midday Bulletin on Tuesday.
“It is true; I lost the woman I have planned to marry after a very longtime”.
According to him, plans were far advanced for the two of them to finally tie the knot as husband and wife come December 2011, but unfortunately, death shattered their marriage plans by laying its icy hands on the “only woman i ever loved”.
Narrating circumstances leading to her death, Adjorlolo said “I had a distress call on Sunday to come home immediately because Charity popularly called ‘Mother’ was in grave danger…When I got home, I saw that she had become very anemic but after the elder sister who is a retired nurse examined her, it was evident Charity had fibroid so we had to rush her to the Mary Lucy Hospital located Awoshie Last Stop,” he said.
He further recounted that the medical team at the hospital concluded that to save Charity’s life, she needed to undergo surgery, so he (Kofi) got in touch with Charity’s sisters to give their consent before the doctors go ahead with the operation.
“After all the necessary documentations, the operation began…while her sister went searching for pints of blood…She first went to Korle-bu where luckily she was able to purchase some units of blood…she marched on to the Ridge Hospital where she was told no blood was available for sale…later she trekked to the 37 Military Hospital where she had one pint of blood…But unfortunately, Charity had lost so much blood during the operation that when her sister returned to the hospital with the pints of blood, it was too late…She had been declared dead,” he sobbed.
The former broadcast journalist also revealed that some residents of Gbawe, Anyaa, NIC, Awoshie Last Stop, all suburbs of Accra and other family members who have also lost friends and loved ones at the hospital under similar circumstances, were so enraged that they wanted to take the law into their own hands by razing down the hospital to ashes.
“My lady’s death shouldn’t be the cause of any agitation so I want to use your medium to ask them to calm down and am cautioning them that there is no need for them to make a case because I believe very strongly that the doctors at Mary Lucy Hospital did what they could to save ‘Mother’, my lady. So i’m pleading with them, they shouldn’t indulge in anything criminal and untoward because of my lady’s death. If they have anything against the Hospital they should write a petition to the appropriate quarters,” he advised.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced yet, as the family comes to terms with the loss.
Peacefmonline.com expresses our deepest condolence to Kofi Adjorlolo and the family of the late Charity Nyarko.
