Video of Raphael Dwamena suffering a cardiac arrest before his death goes viral on social media 

With the latest turn of events, a video has shaken Ghana’s football community. The viral video features Raphael Dwamena suffering a cardiac arrest live on camera. He was a striker for Albanian club KF Egnatia in the Albanian football league. The disturbing clip is sending the internet into fuzzy. Here we will be diving into the story and find out what the fuss is all about. Keep on scrolling- 

Video of Raphael Dwamena collapsing goes viral

As mentioned above, 28-year-old professional footballer Raphael Dwamena was caught on camera suffering cardiac arrest. Unfortunately, the incident caused him to lose his life. Back in 2017, he found out he had a heart defect but continued playing on the field despite seeking treatment for it. In 2021, he was put on an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), sadly he collapsed during the Austrian Cup match. 

As per news reports, the video was shot on 11 November 2023 during the KF Egnatia and Partizani match. In the video, you can see Dwamena collapsing while paramedics give him first aid and later take him to a hospital.

Ghana Football Association released an official statement stating- “The Ghana Football Association is sad to hear of the death of our former player Raphael Dwamena and wish to express our deepest condolences to his family at this difficult moment.” 

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Antonio Asso, the cardiologist behind Dwamena’s defibrillator released a statement- “Unfortunately, what happened last Saturday was easy to predict. Two years ago, he suffered ventricular fibrillation (a chaotic rhythm in the heart that equals death if an electric discharge is not applied to the chest in the first 10 minutes). Fortunately enough, as the defibrillator implanted was operative, it resuscitated him. He later asked for his device to be taken out and when that malignant arrhythmia recurred last Saturday, no defibrillator was in his chest.”