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KATH Missing Baby: Family rejects compensation

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  • KK 10 years ago

    Not easy but the family should try and agree with the MOH for a good compensation. as for the remains on the baby' it wont come oooo

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

    Not even new born babies are safe in Ghana. What a Nation!

  • The Mask 10 years ago

    Lecturer?

    There are reports of no police presence during KNUST examinations especially at the medical school at KATH.

    With WASSCE and BECE there is police presence. University exams demand even greater policing.

    The ...
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  • kagee 10 years ago

    The family of the missing baby must understand that the baby is either missing or dead or both.The fact is that they cannot have their baby.I hope the hospital and ministry have informed them by now. They either accept compen ...
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  • MATHS 10 years ago

    U agree totally with the position of the family. If you were in their shoe, I am sure your language would have been different from what you have written here. When the baby was born, if I have followed the story properly, the ...
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  • manchester 10 years ago

    You are a big fool. Do you have a child? May be you have been aborting them. Money cannot solve what they are going through so if they say they don't want the money why not leave them alone. You and who are getting fed up? Ot ...
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  • manchester 10 years ago

    I repeat you are a fool. Are so poor you will exchange your child with 50,000 ghana cedis. Hey idiot that money cannot buy you happiness or a second hand car. Think about that and stop behaving as if you have been bribed to t ...
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  • BOWONDA 10 years ago

    Kagee, or whatever you call yourself, they should 'shut up' and accept the 'compensation' or they might get nothing at the end? Where is this reasoning from? If you a Ghanaian, tell any parent in our culture to do that and se ...
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  • togbe of hotso 10 years ago

    Madam suwaiba is a freedom fighter. She is not money concious like stupid kagee and a lot of Ghanaians. We need people like suwaiba to fight for freedom.

  • CONTEMNOR 10 years ago

    idiot Nigerian Imbecile. What about the 300 girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria?

  • DR KUFFOUR 10 years ago

    My Good People of Ghana, why conpensation now when a committee is still to review a Midwifery council report? Is the ministry admiting guilt? Finally, don't we want to know what really happen? God save poor Ghana.

  • manchester 10 years ago

    THANK YOU. Why are they offering them money? Is it because they think they are poor or what? Something is wrong somewhere. Just tell the truth. In Ghana everything is bribe. Some people can even bribe you and take your wive b ...
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  • Light 10 years ago

    Then they will face the court but not a back door compensation. We are not going to change our child for money.

  • Nii Nortey (New York) 10 years ago

    Light, you are right. Why are they talking about compensation? Where is the police in all this investigation. the ministry"s role is to uphold the ethics of the ministry. Whatever had happened is a crime and must be treated l ...
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  • jo 10 years ago

    Hmmmmmmmm

  • baby luv 10 years ago

    Madam Suwiaba, please fight to end if not for your baby please do it for others. It is good news that you turned down the money . Be assured that you have support.
    may God bless and keep you and your family up through this ...
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  • Mp 10 years ago

    Madam Suwiaba must fight on.

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  • kwame atta 10 years ago

    It is good to turn down the offer. Tell the ministry your baby is not for sale.. If the baby is dead they should produce the body. This is no brainer....It time professional are held responsible for their negligience and malp ...
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  • Kojo Darko, Indianapolis. 10 years ago

    Is the HEALTH MINISTRY compensating the POOR LADY a sum of MONEY for her STOLEN baby or negligently KILLED?????. Madam health minister??? where on earth will these nonsense happened BUT GHANA, and somebody said "not easy but" ...
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  • manchester 10 years ago

    Shirley Ayittey please do something about htis. If she were to be your daughter in law i don't think you lot will stupidly compensate her. You have children Abi? Everyhting is possible in Ghana but look and behold whjoever is ...
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  • Iord 10 years ago

    What is this that am reading today,how stupid can the Ministry of Health be sometimes,Someone kid is missing and the best you can do is to go through the back door not even straight to the victim to negotiate. That missing ba ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    Pls, the way things got to the news were wrong.The baby is not alive this is the truth which Mad Suwiaba knows. Lord 'my dear', they are looking for the dead body of the dear child (truth no.2). The ministry got it wrong when ...
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  • Iord 10 years ago

    Well even if the baby is not alive as most people know,still I belief that the family needs to get some kind of good compensation because it happens everywhere in the world people sue companies around the world for misconduct ...
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  • kagee 10 years ago

    Most people are assuming that the family is absolutely right. What if the hospital had provided a dead baby for this mother who hardly knows her baby. The mistake of the hospital is the missing baby.They can however win in c ...
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  • Bell Nono 10 years ago

    My advise, Please do not take a pesewa for the child which is missing. The interpretation would be that you sold your child. Let those who collaborated to get the child missing be with the problematic conscience "until thy ...
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  • Darous UK 10 years ago

    Do you think that baby is for sale just like that?
    This is where most of Ghanaian don't understand.let us deal with this mater to find who is behind this not about money at all.
    find them take them to court if possible JAIL ...
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  • Iord 10 years ago

    Even if the people who committed the crime are caught and jailed,still there is a very necessary need for a good compensation for the family because at the end of the day,the family especially the mother might have gone throu ...
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  • Shar 10 years ago

    Health Minister where did you study ???
    If abroad you cant do that THINK TWICE PLEASE
    it is SHAME just propose Money against Baby

  • citizen 10 years ago

    I wonder if they are now paying for the dead body or what... Please Produce our baby . God please always bless our mommies .

  • Cynthia 10 years ago

    You can go to court and still lose your case.What is the laid down procedure in disposal of still births..MOH should make the report public and allow the family to contest the case in court to bring closure.It could be a bad ...
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  • Ford 10 years ago

    so the doctors and nurses sold the child for millions of dollars, so the want the mother of the child her share....hahaaaaha, this is not fair,please share the money equally, GOD IS WATCHING.

  • mani 10 years ago

    no need to over stretch the issue. Even in Islam, when some one murders your relative, Sharia (Islamic jurisprudence) allow the culprit to pay ransom for the murder. Who knows what the child could have grown up to be?. It is ...
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  • Abdul 10 years ago

    I wonder if you are an authority on Islamic Law to make this statement. I Agree with you to go this issue but And forgive whoever is involve in the disappearance of the baby for the mother to have a peace of mind. I believe i ...
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  • SKA Dompreh. 10 years ago

    They should produce the baby not money perod!

  • tijani 10 years ago

    the family should take it, for a baby for 50,000. an adult northner will not even worth that much ,,,,,,,lol

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    foolish fool. i know if you were the one whos baby disappeared to will go all out and bargain for a higher price. will that money clear her doubts and conscience of what really happened to her baby? certainly not. what she wa ...
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  • KOFI ATIEMO 10 years ago

    The family should keep on pressuring them till they get answer.Most of the service providers take us for a ride.
    They always want to do what they want not what the rules say.

  • ALI 10 years ago

    Infact there should be nothing like compensation at this stage. Those involved in this scandal had their cup full this time around and must face the consequences they long were aware of yet decided to engaged in. From Dr thro ...
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  • AGOO 10 years ago

    THE BEST THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH COULD DO IS TO PUNISH THE CULPRIT/S FOR WHATEVER INVOLVEMENT BY THE DEGREE OF THEIR INDITEMENT AND NOT MONEY FOR A DEAD BABY.

    DOES THE SUWAIBA BUY THE FACT THAT HER BABY WAS STILLBORN ?

  • Asante 10 years ago

    npp

  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    MONEY cannot buy EVERYTHING otherwise some millionaires will live to be as old as Methusalem ,965 yrs,OR more!!!
    Madam WANTS TO SEE THE STILLBORN BABY. What is so difficult about this IF there's NOTHING BEING COVERED UP ???? ...
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  • obaayaa 10 years ago

    all taxi drivers should no that there criminal around kwashiman and aworshie remove something from their car engine and offer them some amount of money and after the operation the car use a lot of fuel you have to fit it you ...
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  • JH New York 10 years ago

    Suwaiba and Abdul Rahman you have earned my respect to stand your ground to get Justice.Please accept my salutations through this medium.
    Please continue your fight for Justice,to help reverse one of the numerous nonsensica ...
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  • STANLEY 10 years ago

    So where is d remains of d baby n u r giving compensation?

  • amenye 10 years ago

    the minister who is trying to offer such an amount in place of future lawyer, president,minister, etc, my point is that, would she accept such a compensation if any of her family s is a victim of such a wicked act.

  • C C 10 years ago

    Its so sad that the ministry of health is refusing to punish the perpetrators of such a crime by trying to replace a missing baby with cash. What an insult to the family, do you know what this baby could have been in future, ...
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  • Merlic, London 10 years ago

    Be advised that the President of Ghana is already involved in this case. Also, a lot of international women's and children's charities are observing the situation. So, my advice to KATH is to admit that what happened to the w ...
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  • kaketonti 10 years ago

    Sorry.They need no compensation.Just bring the BABY.Dead or Alive.The evil doers must be punished.

  • Agbeybibi 10 years ago

    In Sympathising with Madam Suwaiba, I know that no amount of money can bring her baby back but the inabilty of the authorities to produce a body is most inexcusable and for that reason, I will ecourage her and her lawyers to ...
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  • manchester 10 years ago

    That is a very good point. How much is a second hand car? They have to sue them so that other hospitals will learn a lesson. A woman had her breast wrongly cut when diagnosed with cancer. Instead of cutting the affected breas ...
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  • bob 10 years ago

    only Ghana this nounsance con go on,a friend of mine day old child died and the hospital authorities organise ambulance for the child to be buried including the father and myself

  • azintakanyatinka 10 years ago

    This is surely a test case for the Medical and Dental Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. God is watching.

  • concern citizen 10 years ago

    a lesson for drs and nurses. they should be taken to task to stop this irresponsible behaviours

  • THE LONE PROPHET OF JEHOVAH 10 years ago

    So the health minister is perverting justice by siding with opinion leaders. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMM GHANA?

  • Suleman abdallah tableegi 10 years ago

    What is happning in? What a shame,buying somebody's baby in a form of compasation,the ministry should come out again, seeing elders of the community to sort the issue amicably,is a good step but we want to know the ministry ...
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  • faisal 10 years ago

    Foolish minister only Ghana can this shameful things happening instead of fighting the truth because of human live rather than conpesation

  • fresh 10 years ago

    Fire go burn u

  • fresh 10 years ago

    Na fire go burn u

  • manchester 10 years ago

    Whoever came with this idea is a devil. Exchanging life with mere 50,000 ghana cedis? The same amount these politicians spend on their girlfriends. How much is a second hand saloon car? Do you know how much money some people ...
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  • Akua AU 10 years ago

    For God's sake the midwife dis not know where she placed the body the orderly who disposed of the body and other 'rubbish' cannot find the place he trashed the 'rubbish', therefore family has to be compensated and docket clos ...
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