The Press Union of Liberia announced that its outgoing president, Charles B. Coffey, Jr., has been discharged from the John F. Kennedy Medical Center after a week of treatment for a broken thigh.
Coffey and his driver were admitted to the referral hospital after they were hit by a commercial vehicle while getting off a motorbike, which instantly killed the operator of the motorbike and left Coffey with a fractured thigh and a dislocated knee.
Coffey is required to make progressive checks with doctors at the hospital on schedule based on future scan and healing progression, PUL stressed.
The Union said Coffey is currently at his home in Brewerville, nursing his injuries and request continual prayers for his speedy recovery.
Meanwhile, the PUL said it has learned with profound sadness the death of journalist Augustine T. Tweh.
The late journalist Tweh was on Sunday, June 4, 2023 discovered dead at his Pipeline resident in Paynesville.
The Union expressed shocked by this death news especially, when there was no notice of illness.
The PUL in its release regrets his death and extends her deepest sympathies to the bereaved families and the journalism community.
Augustine Tweh, worked for the FrontPage Africa Newspaper as judicial reporter, Assistant Managing Editor of the Trumpet Newspaper and served as Vice president for the Association of Judicial Reporters.
