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Missing baby saga: Doctor, Nurse asked to proceed on leave

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  • Einstein 10 years ago

    Long live Ghana

  • moyo 10 years ago

    The child should collect the DNA of every child born within that period of time and compare to the parent's one. The habit of swapping babies after birth have been going on at some hospitals in Ghana. It is only the poor that ...
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  • don`t care!!! Hmmmm 10 years ago

    A man dat used 2 produce coffin, on his wa 2 suply, his car get spoit, so he has no option dan 2 cary da coffin on his head 2 his destination on aprochin da place he met police men an der ask wer ar u goin wit dis coffin on u ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Take a DNA of any persons leaving the country with a baby and also take a DNA of all mothers and babies who visit any hospital. Especially with well to do parents between 25-60 years of age.
    And it should have been on radio ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    Even Ashanti doctors and nurses don't want to be outdone in criminal acts. Of all crimes this is the worst of them all: stealing a new born baby of a poor illiterate woman!

    What was even more heartless was how the doctor w ...
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  • don`t care!!! Hmmmm 10 years ago

    The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people in that region...

    Hmmmmm!Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly th ...
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  • DR. MENSAH. 10 years ago

    THIS HAS HAPPENED IN GERMANY,TOO. AND NOT ONLY IN ASHANTI .TWO DEAD BODIES ALSO MISSING IN GERMANY, INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY.

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    And SO WHAT ??Nonsense!

  • Esi 10 years ago

    Everyday for a thief but one day for the master. This sinister behavior had been in existence at KATH for long time since 1970's. God cannot be mocked. They deliberately let pregnant women in labor died. I have lost three mem ...
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  • Woffa Tony H., NC, USA 10 years ago

    This is the Nation of Primitive People where everything imaginable can happen. I have been saying it loud for some time that these primitive offsprings off ashanti foerst gorillas due to low sperme count notoriously known fro ...
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  • Tanko Biafra 10 years ago

    >>> Imagine a(SUB-Animal), or SUB-Human faggot, calling itself "Woffa Tony H", insulting Asantes, who are HUMAN BEINGS

    Tanko Biafra

  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    I feel sorry for you because the Ashantis are part of you whether you know it or like it. You destroy yourself whenever you destroy them. You just said they are part of Ghana to which country you also belong. Your hatred of y ...
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  • Last Laugh 10 years ago

    Your people smell like carcass and are so poor that they colllect ashanti shit for a pittance in order to survive in their stupid drudgery

  • .......... 10 years ago

    if ashantis are primitives then you #9 you're what? you are worthless and a beast.

  • GHANAS CANCER ASHANTIS 10 years ago

    ONLY GOD KNOW HOW MANY OF SUCH STOLEN KIDS PARADE THE STREETS OF KUMASI,ACCRA AND ELSEWHERE .ASHANTIS AS ACCEPTS THOSE KIDS JUST LIKE THEY ACCEPTED KIDS OF MEN FROM THE NORTH.
    A TYPICAL ASHANTIS HAVE THEIR UGLY FEATURES SO A ...
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  • CANCER REDEEMER 10 years ago

    WHO IS THIS STUPID IDIOT SPILLING THIS NONSENSE,I WILL RATHER KILL ANY SORTS OF PERSON OF YOUR DESCRIPTION IN MY FAMILY.FOOL AND SUB ANIMAL,STOP BRAGGING NONSENSE OR IT IS GOING TO BE NASTY FOR YOU.COMMENT ON THE SUBJECT ABOV ...
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  • Mawuli 10 years ago

    C'mon guys,Are you serious? How do you make this a tribal issue?. If common sense is anything of value to you tribal bigots, you would know that the doctors and nurses especially, including all other staff are not only Ashant ...
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  • Beki 10 years ago

    Mauli, ghana needs poeple like you,but not those fools who tribalise every topic.

  • Repugnant. 10 years ago

    Ashantis will be always known for their predatory and rapacious thievery, by any means necessary.

    The new norm, BABE NO 3 GROW NO, NA SIKA NO 3BA BUTUBUTU. akronfuor!

  • YF 10 years ago

    That will be good of them especially your people, who hate so much but can't live in their own land.Make your place peaceful for your people to go back and help to develope.let Ashanti get an international airport and Takorad ...
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  • Mahama 10 years ago

    We want our baby now ! Alive or Dead !

  • ALI 10 years ago

    THESE BABIES HAVE LONG BEEN SACRIFICED TO THE NPP DIETIES SO THEY WILL WIN THE 2016 ELECTION. IT IS THE PRACTICE OD AKAN/NPP FROM THE TIME OF YOORE. THEY HEAND HUNT FOR HUMAN HEADS SO THEY CAN DRINK PALM WINE FROM HUMAN SKULL ...
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  • IRENE 10 years ago

    Aboa , who think outside the box.Get the hell out of Ashanti that's all.I wish these nurses and doctors will start to turn away some clients or live them there for no care.If people continue to insult Ashantis because of some ...
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  • andy cole 10 years ago

    i am happy with the action taken by the minister.good work done.

  • andy cole 10 years ago

    i hope KATH is not the only hospital this is happening,check all the regional hospitals including Koforidua central hospital.

  • Obaa Yaa 10 years ago

    Why the violence and long speeches from various departmental heads? Where is their common sense? The police and courts are there to protect and put justice where it belongs. All this woman needs is her baby...dead or alive. I ...
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  • Obaa Yaa 10 years ago

    Thus Ghana Medical Association or Ghana Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council and all other regulatory bodies in the health sector whose members are involved should be suspended or placed on interim working condition ...
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  • Efienyansa 10 years ago

    These two very vocal and 'political' professional associations about this issue? Everybody can now see why these drs. & nurses were insisting on 24/7 protection for themselves and their families before resuming work. We are n ...
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  • Robert Amoo 10 years ago

    Oh my God!!! How can a parent bare a baby for nine months with tribulations and sufferings for a mere person to sell the baby just 1 day after the Deliverance of the child.........Nay the Almighty God have Mercy on you Cruel ...
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  • Mudus 10 years ago

    It is a syndicate whereby proceeds from deals are shared. They therefore cover each others back. That is yaanom for you. Very treacherous

  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    MINISTER I THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NYORMOR BA BLESSED BOO. SACK THEM TO HAVE TIME TO FACE THE LAW COURT. NDC SHOULD BE SERIOUS WITH ANY MISBEHAVING NURSE OR DOCTORS.IS BECOMING TOO MUCH THAT GOV SPENT MONEY ON DOCTORS AND NURSES ...
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  • Mr. Questions 10 years ago

    WHY IS THE MINISTER MAKING A BIG DEL OUT OUT OF THIS INCIDENT. IN FACT, STEALING IS THE NORM OF THE TIMES IN GHANA. THE MINISTER HERSELF IS A THIEF, THE PRESIDENT IS A THIEF, THE ASANTEHENE IS A THIEF, POLICEMEN ARE THIEVES ...
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  • Mr. Questions 10 years ago

    THE MINISTER YOU ARE RELYING ON, IS HERSELF A THIEF. DO YOU THINK THERE IS ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STEALING THE PEOPLES' MONEY AND STEALING A BABY FOR SALE AT THE BLACK MARKET SO ONE CAN EAT ARE DIFFERENT ?

    WOYOME IS STI ...
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  • yaro 10 years ago

    you are a fool an animal, by by calling the president and the ashanti hene a teifs....

  • peeeeeeee 10 years ago

    When its your wife ,sister then you can talk foolish.poor so they should steal?when armed robbers kill your mum say its ok cos they poor

  • jerry-shanghai 10 years ago

    very saddened to read this heart
    breaking article,proper inquiries need
    to be taken by the ministry and hencefoth layout measures should be deployed to protect our pregnant women

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    No stone must left unturned in the noble search for this famous missing baby. The mother of this innocent baby must be commended for her bravery in demanding to be given her baby. But for her bravery, nobody would have known ...
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  • OBTT 10 years ago

    GOOD RIDDANCE. THE TRUTH NEEDS TO BE UNRAVELLED. WE NO LONGER LIVE IN THE PRIMITIVE WORLD. SOME DOCTORS AND NURSES ARE EVIL. SOME ARE EVEN WITCHES AND WIZARDS. HOW CAN A PERSON CARRY HER BABY FOR 9 SOLID MONTHS AND BE DENIED ...
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  • Tijani 10 years ago

    When this incident happens few weeks ago, this website was flooded with insults at Moslems in general. the journalist who wrote about the incident was so negative against Moslems, instead of condemning the doctors and nurses ...
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  • KING 10 years ago

    ghanaians have short memory of thinking

  • Espoo 10 years ago

    Even if the hospital authorities insist the baby was born dead, the body should still be given to the parents. At least the parent should bury the dead baby according to Islamic tradition.

  • Village Food 10 years ago

    Tijani yes action speaks louder than words.

  • YEO CLAUDE 10 years ago

    IT SI NOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU ARE AS YOUR LEADER MOHAMMED THE GAY

  • Efienyansa 10 years ago

    Fervervently suscribe to one of the key tenets of the Islam that," God is Great"! Just think about the convergence of events which have brought us to where we are now. I listened to the hospital PRO[a Kwame Frimpong] try his ...
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  • Yobi 10 years ago

    Ghana ooh

  • Ghana John John 10 years ago

    Hopefully this latest move is not just to get people clamed down and soon the matter will be forgotten. We will await the results of the suspension and investigations

  • OLD FOX 10 years ago

    THIS SINFUL PRACTISE HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCCE ADAM IN OUR TEACHING HOSPITALS,ESP. KATH.BOTH SELLERS AND THE BUYERS ARE GUILTY AND MUST BE PROSECUTED AND PERSECUTE.

  • kojo 10 years ago

    Oh, the time has come. Their cup is full. At Komfo Anokye, everybody does what he or she likes. My sick mom was badly treated before she died. A senior doctor demanded money from me before he would attend to her. I believe ...
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  • HAWA 10 years ago

    My opinion is that, punish the doctors, but on equal measure, punish those who attacked the Doctors. They must be arrested for lawlessness

  • Rose 10 years ago

    A similar issue is pending in Cape Coast, where a hairdresser who has not given birth before and never been pregnant has suddenly been seen with a newly born baby and is even causing problems between her and the husband becau ...
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  • YEO CLAUDE 10 years ago

    WHY DO YOU ALWAYS REFUSE TO BE FACTUAL BY ATTACKING ASHANTIS?IT IS NOT OUR FAULT IF YOU WERE BORN NINGO FROM MAHAMA S REGION OF LAWLESS PEOPLE.FROM NOW IF YOU COMMENT IMBECILLY I WILL RETA LIATE

  • KA AKYIRE 10 years ago

    BETTER CANCELLED THEIR CERTIFICATES FOR VICTORY FOR MORAL

  • vorsah 10 years ago

    hope this is not just one of the countless investigated issues which just go dead and nothing more is heard.
    cursed be anyone who hides the truth and deprive a mother of her baby whether stillborn or not

  • KA AKYIRE 10 years ago

    THEY SHOULD LOOSE THE RIGHT TO PRACTICE MEDICATION FOR MORAL SAKE

  • WALTER C.K. DOGLI 10 years ago

    ONE CAN CERTAINLY NOT BEHAVE LIKE THIS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR IN GERMANY.WHO BORN DOG? IT WILL BE BETTER IF ALL PREGNANT WOMEN GO TO THE TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANCE TO HAVE THEIR BABIES DELIVERED THAT WAY NO BABY WILL GET LOST ...
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  • KOFI 10 years ago

    TWO(2)PLOTS OF LAND AT WEST MC.CARTHY HILLS FOR SALE:
    DIMENSION: 110 X 70 PER PLOT
    PRICE PER PLOT:C75,000 NEGOTIABLE
    AND:
    ONE(1)PLOT OF GATED BLOCK-FENCED SECURED FREEHOLD LAND WITH SHARED 4000 GALLONS UN ...
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  • ok 10 years ago

    that is very good steps -it will put the rest in order -especially the nurses they dont show respect to humans at all

  • Stanley Addai Emmanuel 10 years ago

    Good work

  • Felix Nana Osei Offei 10 years ago

    were from dis again?should our mothers have to suffer for nine month and in e last round some one will just come in the name of money to take e precious of our mothers womb away hmm God will sure reveal them all one by one.

  • Malik 10 years ago

    dead or alive,the baby cannot get missing just like that. we expect the right thing to be done not just leave nor police charges but the safety of our babies yet unborn is important. babies cannot be missing the way it is now ...
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  • KOOKZI 10 years ago

    EVER SINCE I LOST MY BROTHER AND FATHER WITHIN A SPACE OF FIVE MONTHS AS A RESULT OF CRASS INSENSITIVITY AND CALLOUSNESS ON THE PART OF DOCTORS AND NURSES AT KORLE-BU AND, THEIR ( DOCTORS` AND NURSES` ) PENCHANT FOR TAKING BR ...
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  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 10 years ago

    WELL THIS IS VERY BAD, AND IF THE DOCTORS AND PERSONNELS AT KATH DECIDED TO BLACK MAIL, THE NATION WITH THEIR WITHDRAWAL OF SERVICES IT EVEN STINKS MORE , MORE TERRIBLE IS IF THEY WANT TO CONFRIM THAT 5CHILDREN DIED AT CHILD ...
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  • Berlin Germany Broni. 10 years ago

    The nurses there are very theives,that is what they normally do.

  • Sani not Abacha 10 years ago

    This is window dressing. The vulnerable gets the punishment for crimes committed by others. When the CEO of KATH is interdicted, the true culprits will be found.

  • Saabit Pablo 10 years ago

    we a still waiting...If Injustice occurred on this Seriouse Criminal case Doctors n Nurses of KATH will be Kidnap with their family all...HW CAN THEY GET PEACE?Hmmm n Booom is a Deep words...

  • DICKSON 10 years ago

    GHANAIANS ARE GETTING SOOOO evil so no wonder there are fire outbreaks everywhere. ......the doctors and nurses are all sooooo evil........evil........evil.............DEAR FATHER GOD PLEASE HELP US. ....AMEN....

  • hot2ice 10 years ago

    Well done Ms. Sherry Ayittey. Other ministries should learn from you if we want the countries development.

  • sato 10 years ago

    IF possible Ghana medical and Dental council should withdraw the Doctor's certificate, while Nurses and Midwifery council too withdraw the nurse's certificate and prosecute them to serve as lesson to others.

  • Efienyansa 10 years ago

    Requirement, so as to protect the general public from some of these 'vultures' in our society whose main pre-occupation in life, is to make money,and tons of it!

  • C C 10 years ago

    It is good a very news that at least somebody is on leave for wrong doing at KATH which has seen lots of mismanagement, bribery, corruption, lateness to work, use of mobile phones at the wrong time by some health professional ...
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  • JB Ansong 10 years ago

    The academic degrees/certificates of those involved cannot be revoked, but their permits to practise as medical professionals MUST be revoked, their names cancelled from the GMA/GNC files - so that tehy will no longer practis ...
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  • Rans F 10 years ago

    They are going to waste a whole year and all their time on a case that is already being investigated by the Police! Allow the Police to do their legitimate work so that you can have enough time to fix the economy! The whole c ...
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  • bugri michael 10 years ago

    What is happening in Ghana? May God mercy on us

  • Kofi Amoh 10 years ago

    Where is the Ghana Medical Association?
    I was thinking that a gravious issue like this, thy would have embark on strike to add their voices to the families of the affected.It is very shameful when those who are suppose to gi ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    You're stupid, Kofi. Is the police not investigating? Believe me, much as the family needs sympathy, it will be difficult to indict 7 people plus 2 for stealing the body of still-born baby.

  • Efienyansa 10 years ago

    Hit the streets this Monday, March 3,2014;but they have been 'forced'to abandon that needless strike action.
    May be now they`ll have the time to pay more attention to their social responsiblity,as a sacred profession!

  • JOHNSON 10 years ago

    BECAUSE OF WANT OF MANY IN GHANA BY EVERY PERSON, THERE IS NOW A BABY TEALING SYNDICATE AT KATH. HOW COULD A DOCTOR AND MIDWIFE JUST TELL A MOTHER THAT YOUR BABY WAS A STIIL-BIRTH(BORN DEAD) AND JUST WORK AWAY WITHOUT PRODUCI ...
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  • RAW 10 years ago

    IS NATIONAL SECURITY NOT TAKING THIS ISSUE SERIOUSLY BCOS THE WOMAN IS POOR??
    WOULD THEY HAVE ACTED THE WAY THEY ARE ACTING NOW IF IT HAD HAPPENED TO A MINISTER OR PARLIAMENTARIAN??? IMAGINE, HERE IN ACCRA, GENDER MINISTRY I ...
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  • liz toronto 10 years ago

    the mother of the baby cried im sure when he was born so there is no way to tell the mother that he was dead without showing the dead body to the mother.at koforidua hospital my friend child died and they waited for the famil ...
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  • afua 10 years ago

    the staff who delivered the baby should be jailed and this would be alesson to many rude nurses in ghana

  • Khalifa umar 10 years ago

    Why are some people so wicked

  • Last Laugh 10 years ago

    SO LEAVE ASAHNTIS ALONE

  • Efienyansa 10 years ago

    And a legitimate demand, as far as I am concerned! Haba,does it have to come to this after having 'squeezed' the govt for every pesewa?
    The govt should seriously consider introducing or strenghtening existing strict liabili ...
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  • naijaman 10 years ago

    These Heartless Criminal Doctors have been stealing and selling New born babies for quiet sometime now

  • OKOFO 10 years ago

    Oh why is it that everything evil in Ghana start from Ashanti region. Hmmmm only God knows

  • YAKUBU 10 years ago

    They should produce the baby of the Madam Suwaiba ASAP and all other babies who have gone missing immediately. It's about time some sanity was injected into the health sector to address the issue of negligence and apathy, on ...
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  • kassim Alabani 10 years ago

    we have to also made sure that those ask to proceed on leave do not keep taking salary.

  • Agbey 10 years ago

    Let`s see the true end state of this case. And appropriate punishment to the culprits.

  • Wallanyo 10 years ago

    This is the general practice at the KATH. Selling new born Babies to those who would pay. I know of women who delivered only to be told that the child has passed on Without dead bodies. These women followed up for the dead bo ...
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  • kk 10 years ago

    Arrest them if they are the suspects not to take leave. The medical ministry has been irresponsible for far too long. They behave as if they are untouchables and all they do is to cover up cases or do nothing

  • KING OF KING 10 years ago

    Ghana must go to the law of human-right to jail this criminal act doctors rain or shine the have to face the law

  • faimous 10 years ago

    why doctor,s nurses wunt you think of died ?what horrible act are you presenting? shaime on to tieves

  • Aziz Sanchez 10 years ago

    I don't even think the baby is dead, he is alive and they know were is he,they sold him to a rich person, and don't wan't to produce the baby.

  • Alice 10 years ago

    l believe the intention was to sell the baby.Now that there are issues they should just confess and hand over the live baby to the mother. The baby is not dead, he is alive.