Bereaved father sues Korle Bu

Mohammed Awal, 30, a travel and tour executive is a very worried man having been brainstorming on how to keep his business running and now he has another agony to overcome: that of coming to terms with the death of his unborn daughter a the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on February 26,2001.

Awal, according to 'The Accra Mail', a bi-weekly sees the possibility of malpractice as the cause of his unborn child's death. He said a scan conducted on his pregnant wife on Friday, February 23 showed that she could deliver anytime wife on Friday, February 23 showed that she could deliver anytime between Friday February 23 and Saturday February 24 and so she was admitted a the maternity ward of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

A senior nurse at the OPD examined the expectant mother and asked her husband to go home and return the following day at 12:45 noon when his wife would have delivered safely. The following day Saturday February 24, when Awal went to the hospital with flowers to congratulate his wife and cuddle his newborn baby, he was told his wife was sill at the labour ward and that he could not see her.

On Tuesday, Awal, who had become a familiar face through several visits, made a final one to the ward. "My wife was sitting on her bed. I asked her whether she had delivered, and she said 'yes'!" Where is the baby? His wife replied grief stricken that the baby had died. He was later shown he remains of the dead baby.

His wife then told him that when she delayed in delivering, the doctor took a belated decision and operated upon her only o pull out a dead baby.

Awal has therefore vowed to spend his last cede to battle with the hospital at the courts.

"They need someone to stop them and I will do just that," he says.