{"id":2141,"date":"2019-01-21T15:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T15:08:29","slug":"womans-lip-bitten-off-after-getting-lift-to-buy-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/21\/womans-lip-bitten-off-after-getting-lift-to-buy-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman&#8217;s lip bitten off after getting lift to buy food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An ulcer patient has lost her lip in her quest to adhere to medical advice to eat at regular intervals.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n 25-year-old hairdresser has lost her lower lip in a fight with a nurse,\n who was incensed that her boyfriend gave the victim a lift in her quest\n to get food, Ina-Thalia Quansah reports from Kwesimitsim, Western \nregion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe\n grabbed my lip and started chewing it as I struggled to defend myself \nbut to no avail; suddenly I saw my blood splashing on the floor that was\n the last thing I remember at the salon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\n only woke up to find out I am at the hospital and my lower lip was \ngone. &nbsp;Beatrice Agyapong told Ina-Thalia, Joy News correspondent in \nTakoradi,&nbsp; amidst tears on her hospital bed in Kwesimintim hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recounting\n her ordeal to Ina-Thalia, Beatrice Agyapong said \u201cI was recently \ntreated of ulcer and was advised by doctors to adopt the habit of eating\n early to avoid complications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.myjoyonline.com\/photos\/news\/201901\/2497748499580_5196687725734.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;So\n on Friday 18th January 2019 at about 8:00 am, I decided to go to \nKwesimintsim to buy food.&nbsp; Just as I stepped out of the house, I saw a \nprivate car known to me passing, so I signaled it to a stop asked for a \nlift to Kwesimintsim so I could find some food to buy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owner of this private car happens to be the boyfriend of the nurse, whose name has only been given as Mummy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After getting her food, Beatrice said she&nbsp;returned to work, a Saloon at Airport Ridge, a suburb of Sekondi \u2013 Takoradi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\n the nurse suddenly showed up and confronted her for&nbsp;boarding&nbsp;the \nboyfriend\u2019s car. &nbsp;In the ensuing confrontation, the nurse bit off the \nvictim\u2019s entire lower lip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.myjoyonline.com\/photos\/news\/201901\/3034334061977_2864095048461.PNG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According\n to Ina-Thalia, the victim was immediately rushed to the hospital but \ndoctors on duty said the cells in the bitten off part had died, hence \ncould not be stitched back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\n nurse in charge at Kwesimintsim hospital, Belinda Hayford , who \nconfirmed the story at the hospital,&nbsp;said the bitten flesh was not \nbrought along so doctors on duty sent for the bitten off flesh but by \nthe time it was the cells were dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\n explained&nbsp;the only way to get another lip for Beatrice Agyapong is \nthrough plastic surgery. A report has since been made to the \nKwesimintsim police but the perpetrator is yet to be arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find audio narratives of the victim and the nurse on duty at the kwasimintim&nbsp;hospital<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=XsCNPeiehkJw434fS\" width=\"100%\" height=\"260px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/news\/2019\/January-21st\/womans-lip-bitten-off-after-getting-lift-to-buy-food.php\">myjoyonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>An ulcer patient has lost her lip in her quest to adhere to medical advice to eat at regular intervals.&nbsp; The 25-year-old hairdresser has lost <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/21\/womans-lip-bitten-off-after-getting-lift-to-buy-food\/\" title=\"Woman&#8217;s lip bitten off after getting lift to buy food\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-news","category-western-region","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}