Death at watch-night service: Police Hospital to conduct autopsy
Doctors at the Police Hospital are scheduled to conduct an autopsy on the 33-year-old woman who died during a watch-night service at the Assemblies of God Church at Madina on December 31, 2013.
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The family of Patience Tetteh would have to go to court to go through the necessary documentation to obtain a coroner’s report on the matter before the postmortem could be carried out.
No foul play
The Madina Divisional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Boadu Prempeh, told the Daily Graphic last Sunday, that the family of the deceased had formally reported the tragic incident to the police.
According to him, there is no suspicion of foul play but what is to be established is the cause of death.
Watch-night service
Patience Tetteh died minutes after ‘crossing over’ into the New Year during the church’s watch-night service on December 31, 2013.
She died when she sat on her seat after the church had sung and danced to usher in the year 2014.
She was said to have actively participated in song ministrations on that fateful night.
According to a member of the church who also attended the service, Ms Tetteh joined other members of the church in singing and dancing but not long after, she was seen motionless, with the back of her head resting on the chair.
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That attracted members of the church to her seat but unfortunately, she was dead.
Her body has been deposited at a morgue in Madina.
Friends and sympathisers continue to visit the family of the deceased to express their grief.
The residence of the late Ms Tetteh was quiet and serene but clergymen from the church were at the house to pray for the deceased’s family when the Daily Graphic went there last week.
Ms Tetteh’s younger sister, Ms Beatrice Tetteh, declined to speak to the Daily Graphic despite persistent efforts to get her to narrate the circumstances that led to her sister’s death.