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Couple files a GH5 million lawsuit against St. John Hospital and Fertility Centre for alleged malpractice
A couple has sued St. John Hospital & Fertility Centre, blaming them for their baby’s death and requesting GH5 million in damages for the loss of life, sorrow, and suffering caused by their claimed activities.
In their statement of claim, the couple, Mr Ekow Andoh and Mrs Sandra Tekyiwaa Sackey asked the court for a declaration that the defendant is vicariously liable for the medical negligence of its employee health workers because their negligent omission and commission caused their baby to be diagnosed with severe asphyxia, which led to the baby’s death.
They also request an order requiring the defendant to pay the costs of the action, including legal fees based on the Ghana Bar Association’s 2022 Fee Scale.
They claimed that the defendant knew or should have known that its health officers’ actions and inactions fell below the standard of care when its officers failed to curtail a prolonged delivery by Mrs Sackey (2nd Plaintiff) while the latter was under the defendant’s duty of care, causing the couple’s baby boy to be diagnosed with severe asphyxiation, resulting in the baby’s death.
They claimed that the defendant’s midwives denied the 2nd Plaintiff’s request for elective caesarian section (CS) at the start of the 2nd Plaintiff’s baby’s delivery, resulting in prolonged delivery of the 2nd Plaintiff and severe asphyxiation and the death of Plaintiff’s baby.
The couple further claims that the defendant’s delay from decision until delivery, as well as poor care, resulted in severe asphyxiation and the death of the plaintiffs’ infant.
They claim that after being discharged from the hospital and about a week later, the 2nd Plaintiff discovered that the stitched section of her vagina generated coloured discharge, giving her significant suffering. Furthermore, when attempting to move or participate in any activity, the 2nd Plaintiff felt dizzy, weak, and easily weary.
According to the Plaintiffs, the Holy Care Specialist Hospital inspected the second Plaintiff and found that her sutures were not done properly since most of them were in knots and caused infection with a discharge.
The Holy Care Specialist Hospital confirmed the 2nd Plaintiff’s continued anaemia to be 7 g/dl of haemoglobin.
They claimed that the defendant, as the owner and administrator of a WhatsApp group called “ST. JOHN’S PREGNANCY CLASS” with over 150 pregnant women on board, including the 2nd Plaintiff, circulated information on the group claiming that Korle Bu Teaching Hospital was to blame for the baby’s death and not them.
According to the Plaintiffs, the defendant deleted the second Plaintiff from the aforementioned WhatsApp group in the midst of the Plaintiff’s child’s death and other expectant women asking concerns.
The Director of Strategy, Research, and Communications at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Samuel Appiah Darko, has revealed that the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has already returned the docket against former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah.
Mr Darko informed Bernard Avle, host of the Citi Breakfast Show on Citi FM, that EOCO’s claims that it wants to return the docket are false because this has already occurred.
“Let me start with what EOCO said yesterday [Monday, May 6] that they were going to return the docket to the OSP, that is not accurate. They have long returned the docket to us with an explanation that they have been advised by the AG [Attorney General] not to investigate but remember, we did not say to prosecute, [to] investigate and so I don’t understand why EOCO will say they are now going to return the docket to OSP.”
Mr Darko also dismissed assertions that the docket it provided to EOCO was unfounded, claiming that EOCO has shown a lack of interest in researching the situation and instead sought to blame the OSP.
“The second point I want to make is this whole idea that the docket that the OSP sent to EOCO was baseless and if you will indulge me, I am going to be a bit detailed, although we are not supposed to do this but our point is that if there is no appetite to want to investigate and prosecute, tell the people of Ghana that there is no appetite but don’t try to put the blame on the OSP.”
On Monday, while addressing the media at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa, EOCO’s Executive Director, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah, stated that her organisation intends to return the docket since there is nothing else they can do.
“If you read the A-G’s advice, whatever that we would have done had already been directed at the police CID. And like he said this morning, when you investigate a case and you do not find anything, we should be bold enough to come and tell the public that for this case, even though I suspected this at the day, that wasn’t what came out; we should be bold the Ghanaian.”
Kwaku Sey, a 19-year-old Dambai Lakeside resident, was reportedly shot dead on Sunday, May 5, after a conflict between police and furious youth outside Dambai Town Hall, the headquarters of Eastern Krachi in the Oti region.
Frances Gesaloge Boyesah Okoro, a neighbourhood resident, alleged that police officers on night patrol went to the area to arrest several “ghetto” youngsters, “who were smoking hard drugs at the time.”
He said the young guy resisted arrest, which resulted in confusion and warning shots, with Sey being wounded by a stray bullet and dying in the hospital.
Dambai Lakeside Assemblyman Emmanuel Atali corroborated the conflict between the police and the teenager, stating that he heard a gunshot on Sunday at about 8:pm and discovered the dead lying in a pool of blood.
He stated that he went to the police station to file an official report, and the body was subsequently sent to Worawora Hospital for preservation.
This generated terror in the town, as both residents and pedestrians fled for safety.
Some of the irate youngsters smashed two police officers’ bikes on the spot.
Police have detained two persons to aid with investigations.
Meanwhile, police from the Divisional and Regional Commands remained mute on the event when the Ghana News Agency visited the station to confirm the claims.
A 10-year-old hawker was killed when a tipper truck with the registration number GM 2312 – 21 collided with her in Mankessim, Mfantseman Municipality, Central Region.
The deceased, Hawa, was allegedly crossing the Mankessim-Cape Coast Highway when she was run over in the middle of the road.
According to Kasapa News, the event occurred early Monday morning, May 6, 2024.
Hawa, who was selling mangoes, was transported to Mercy Women’s Catholic Hospital in Mankessim but was confirmed dead upon arrival.
Her remains have been placed in the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital mortuary for preservation.
Meanwhile, the truck driver was apprehended and is cooperating with the inquiry.
Residents concerned about the recent incidence of automobile collisions in the region have urged the Highway Authority to install speed ramps.
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