Disguised as a Nurse: Witness details how baby was stolen from Mamprobi Hospital

Details are emerging of how Latifa Salifu, the 33-year-old woman accused of stealing a 4-day-old baby boy at the Mamprobi Hospital managed to sneak him out of the facility.

According to witnesses, the baby was taken from the mother by a woman who claimed she was going to give him medication at a different place.

Hayford, an EMT driver at the hospital, said that the incident happened on the morning of Tuesday, February 17, 2026.

He indicated that the mother of the 4-day-old baby boy, who had undergone a caesarean section (CS), was recuperating at the hospital’s post-natal ward when the incident happened.

“Yesterday, around 10 am, I came around. I went to see someone upstairs. When I got there, there was a lot of noise and commotion. I asked what was happening, and I was told that a woman who had dressed as a nurse, with a scarf covering her face, had sneaked into the post-natal ward.

“When she got there, she told the mother, who had undergone a CS to deliver her baby that she was taking her child downstairs for a BSG injection; an injection given to newborns to protect them against viral diseases. But the mother said her son had already been given the injection… The woman left and came back to insist that there was an injection that had to be administered to the infant, and the mother agreed for her to take the boy,” he narrated.

“The mother, after realizing that the woman was taking too long to return her baby went downstairs to check what was happening. She asked the nurses there about the woman’s whereabouts, but they told her they had not seen anyone with the description she gave,” he added.

He said that a review of the CCTV around the OPD of the hospital captured the moment the accused person was leaving with the baby.

A midwife at the Mamprobi Hospital, who spoke to GhanaWeb on condition of anonymity, corroborated the details given by Hayford.

She indicated that the accused person fooled the mother of the 4-day-old baby, claiming he had to be taken for some medication.

“The mother said that the woman who took her child was in scrubs, so she thought she was a nurse. The mother was breastfeeding the child when the woman told her to give her the child so she could give him medicine.

“It was her first time (giving birth), so she didn’t know how things are done. We give the medication to the newborns in front of their mothers so they can confirm the children are alive,” the midwife said.

The Ghana Police Service has since arrested the accused person and given the baby back to his mother.

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