Shot SHS student to be flown to UK for urgent treatment with support from Ibrahim Mahama

Suzzy Pinaman, the 17-year-old pupil of Adventist Senior High School astatine Bantama, successful the Ashanti Region, who was changeable successful the oculus by a classmate, is to beryllium flown to the United Kingdom for exigency aesculapian treatment, owed to the swift involution of businessman and philanthropist, Ibrahim Mahama.

Suzzy sustained terrible facial and oculus injuries connected April 4, 2025, erstwhile her classmate, Bernard Amoabeng, allegedly discharged a firearm during a schoolhouse break. The slug struck her forehead, with fragments damaging her eye, leaving her incapable to see, sleep, oregon afloat adjacent the affected eye.

Her information has been described arsenic captious and complex, requiring aggregate surgeries and specialised attraction unavailable successful Ghana.

Following a wide circulated and affectional video appeal, successful which Suzzy tearfully called connected Ibrahim Mahama and erstwhile Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong for assistance, Ibrahim Mahama responded without hesitation. Through his aide, Rafik Mahama, helium pledged to screen the afloat outgo of her treatment, some locally and internationally.

Recognising the urgency of her condition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by the assemblage minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has intervened to fast-track the processing of her question documents and UK visa.

This timely assistance volition alteration her contiguous transportation to a specializer infirmary successful London wherever doctors volition measure the afloat grade of harm and find a attraction plan.

Medical Director of Agarwal Eye Hospital successful Accra, Dr Asiwome Kwesi, who initially handled her case, confirmed the necessity of overseas treatment.

“Her lawsuit is highly delicate. We fishy harm to the backmost of the eye, but cannot measure it decently here. Time is critical,” helium stated during a property briefing connected May 5, 2025.

Suzzy’s ordeal has sparked nationalist outrage and raised superior concerns astir pupil safety, firearm entree among minors, and the intelligence wellness interaction connected victims of school-related violence.

Her household has expressed profound gratitude to Ibrahim Mahama, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the wide nationalist for their overwhelming support.

“We are profoundly thankful for this lifeline. May God bless each those who person shown america compassion successful this acheronian moment,” a household spokesperson said.

AE