Council of State membership aspirant in the Upper East Region Thomas More has disclosed how he lost his mobility in 1994 while attending to a health emergency.
“It was Christmas Day, 25th December, 1994,” Thomas More recalled, when he was rushing to the health facility where he worked to attend to a patient in critical condition.
A nurse, Thomas recollected that he was home when he received a distress message, indicating there was an emergency at the facility that required his attention.
The condition of the patient was so dire that he needed to personally attend to it, he said, the distress message further indicated.
Wasting no time, Thomas headed to the facility.
He said he had almost reached there when in his attempt to cross the road to the facility, a heavy truck rammed the car he was driving into a gutter.
He recounted that although he turned on trafficators of the car, indicating he was crossing, the driver of the truck paid no attention, resulting in the near-fatal accident.
Even after losing his mobility, he did not stop his work as a health professional, he stated.
“I was crossing to my health facility. A guy came from behind, crashed me to the gutter and tried to come back to the main road. And that was not possible. And that is how I lost my legs,” he said in an interview on State of Our Nation on Dreamz FM.
Thomas More, who is a founding member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), said this while recounting what he described as of years of sacrifice for the NDC and people of the region.
He recollected how as a young teacher many especially mothers trooped his home daily seeking healthcare for their children as there were no health professionals in the area. Thomas recalled telling them he wasn’t a medical professional, but that did not dissuade them as they saw him as their only hope of getting medical care.
He said he had to travel several kilometers to buy medication for the many who thronged his home seeking healthcare at the time.
He eventually had to go study healthcare and subsequently established his own health facility.
