There is no dignity in suffering, and medicine is not martyrdom. Nobody should be Ambu-bagging a baby with recurrent apnea for six hours and calling it heroism. That is not standard care. That is waste, exhaustion, and predictable harm dressed up as virtue.
The standard is simple: when apnea is recurrent and you cannot stabilize the child on conservative measures, you intubate, you mechanically ventilate, you secure the airway, and you do your actual job not perform a six-hour manual-resuscitation circus while the unit runs on vibes and prayer.
Six hours of Ambu bagging is total rubbish because:
- It burns out the doctor who should be thinking, not pumping a bag until their arms fail.
- It abandons other neonates who also need attention one baby gets a marathon, the rest get neglect.
- It does not fix recurrent apnea; it delays definitive management.
- The outcome you’re gambling with isn’t “grateful parents on Twitter” it’s hypoxic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and a lifetime of disability because oxygenation was treated like a stamina contest.
No junior doctor will tell you six hours of Ambu bagging was a good experience. It’s a bitter, traumatic experience nobody should have to witness or repeat. Praising it doesn’t elevate medicine it normalizes dysfunction and tells owners of broken units: “Keep understaffing, keep missing ventilators, keep praising manual heroics we’ll clap instead of fix.”
Stop applauding exhaustion.
Stop romanticizing what should never happen in a functional neonatology unit.
Call the owners of that unit facility managers, hospital administration, state health leadership to equip, staff, and protocolize: working ventilators, trained personnel, and clear escalation to intubation and mechanical ventilation on time, not after six hours of manual bagging for likes and pity posts.
Praising a doctor who Ambu-bagged for six hours isn’t respect. It’s complicity in a trash system that leaves no room for improvement because everyone’s too busy clapping martyr theatre instead of demanding dignified, standard neonatal care.
Do the needful. Intubate. Ventilate. Fix the unit. Or shut the unit.
Anything else is noise and the baby pays the price.
According to the audit into the African Games, one individual, through three different companies, secured multiple contracts covering transportation, accommodation, sports equipment, ticketing and medals, with a combined contract value of 151 million cedis.
One of the companies, which was supposedly providing accommodation services, reportedly did not have the required license and instead operated mainly as an intermediary. Two of the hotels it listed could also not be verified.
The audit further indicated that while the hotels were charging between $50 and $70 per night on average, the intermediary billed the state about $150 per night. As a result, the state is said to have overpaid by roughly 10 million cedis on accommodation services provided through that company alone.
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Over 30,000 basic school classrooms have remained without teachers since 2025.
Based on learning loss estimates, this gap could lead to up to 64% loss in arithmetic and about 18% loss in reading, potentially pushing 1.2 million pupils into learning poverty.
Where classrooms lack teachers, Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education becomes meaningless, making this situation not just about hiring unemployed teachers but about fulfilling a constitutional obligation.
Compelling evidence demands that the government deploy teachers by the end of this quarter rather than follow the usual last quarter schedule, which would leave these classrooms nearly two years without teachers, worsening learning loss.
The government’s silence on teacher deployment timelines since the 2026 budget was read last year is deeply unsettling.
The picture in our basic schools is not looking good, especially in the northern regions, Oti, and Western North.
Learning is like a garden; if it is not cultivated consistently, it cannot be harvested. – Larteh Proverb
When doctors profit from patients - The Fourth Estate expose.
-A surgeon, Dr. Stephen Kusi, took GHS7,000 from a patient's father to buy two Gigli saws for amputation. The Fourth Estate investigations indicate a saw ranges between GHS200 - GHS300, which leaves the doctor profiting from the patient.
Cc: @fourthestategh
Just wait for the paint to dry, then paint that end.
Moral lesson: If you wait to understand how to finish, you may never begin. Just start, you'll figure it out along the way.
I’m sorry but making the skinniest phone ever, with a battery life so terrible that it’s co-marketed with a battery pack that makes it fat again is just?
My dad was incarcerated for 13 years on drug charges, and to be able to celebrate my college graduation with him meant the world to me.😭 Glad to have my dude back!💙
Woke up a FAMU alumna 🌟🥂👩🏽🎓🐍
Thankful for the college of love & charity, the lessons I’ve learned and the people I’ve met. This is only the beginning. #famugrad#famualumna