‘There was no ambulance to take ‘dying Amissah-Arthur’ to a hospital ‘ – Okyehene recounts

Paramount chief of Akyem Abuakwa, Okyehene Amoatia Ofori Panin II has disclosed how former Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur was taken to the 37 military hospital.

In a video posted on Facebook, the Okyehene is heard saying the former Vice President who died on Friday, 29 June 2018, was placed at the back of a pick-up to the hospital when efforts to revive him failed.

According to the revered chief, there was no ambulance to carry the former vice president to the 37 Military Hospital — where he was pronounced dead.

Mr Amissah-Arthur was rushed to the military hospital after he collapsed at the Airforce Gym on Friday, 29 June 2018 during a routine workout.

In a video posted on Facebook, the Okyehene is heard saying: “As it’s been for 14 years, any time I go there, I meet my friend and we’ll talk, shake hands … and then go to our different machines… I heard ‘bang’! Three women in the gym were screaming, I left my machine and went and there lay my friend trying to find some air to breathe.

“We gathered around him and pumped his heart as hard as we could, yelled out his name; his wife was calling out: ‘Jesus, save him!’ I just said: ‘Call the ambulance, let’s take him to the hospital.’ There were about seven, eight of us, and something dawned on me. When we took him out, there was no ambulance, there was no car, we threw the former vice-president in the back of a pick-up and drove off to 37.