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Information available to the New Statesman indicates that officials at the National Cardiothoracic Centre of the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital are being pressured by the ruling National Democratic Congress to ensure the former Member of Parliament, Adamu Dramani, who is currently on admission at hospital is sent back to the Nsawam prisons. The former MP was admitted on an emergency as a referral from the Nsawam Government hospital on the August 8, 2012, after complaining of �difficulty in breathing, chest pain cough and fever.� A copy of the medical report, in the possession of the New Statesman reveals that Mr Dramani had a myocardial infarction (heart attack) whilst at the Nsawam prisons. There are presently attempts being made to �stabilize his blood pressure that was poorly controlled [at Nsawam] and also to control his diabetic state.� The report further states that Mr Dramani �is also being managed by the ENT surgeons and ophthalmologists for sleep apnoea syndrome and glaucoma�, and still gets bouts of breathlessness. However, despite a thorough medical examination and report produced by the National Cardiothoracic Centre about the ill-health of Member of Parliament for Bawku, officials of the NDC are still determined to send the former MP to his death by pushing for him to be returned to the Nsawam Prisons. Knowing fully well that Mr Dramani cannot get the medical attention he needs at the Nsawam prison facility, the New Statesman is reliably informed, apparatchiks of the NDC with interest in this matter are bent on sending the former Bawku MP back to Nsawam to, as it were, �teach him a lesson.� Reports monitored earlier at Korle-bu indicates that the prison authorities wanted to chain him to his hospital bed as is done to hardened prisoners on admission but had to vary the standard because of the severity of his condition. The decision to chain him to his bed was out of fear that he could flee. National Security operatives are, however, on a 24-hour guard at the centre.