Suwaiba meets Nurses &Midwives Council

42-years old Suwaiba Abdul Mumin whose baby was stolen at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) on Wednesday February 5, 2014 soon after delivery was the guest of the National Executives of the Nurses & Midwives Council yesterday.

The Council last week extended an invitation to her to appear before them yesterday to narrate her side of events that led to the disappearance of her baby from the referral hospital. She was accompanied by her relatives, including spokesman of the family, Abdul Rahman. Also present was her lawyer, Evans Amankwah.

The meeting was held in a very cordial atmosphere with members of the Council anxious to hear her side of the story. Of particular interest to them was the immediate happenings after she delivered up to the time that she was told her baby was dead.

The grieving mother explained again that soon after delivery, the baby was shown to her and she was asked to identify the sex. She identified the baby as a male after which the baby was taken away. Up to that stage, no mention was made of the baby having been born dead.

Suwaiba said after the nurses had cleaned her up, feeling dizzy, she passed out but was revived. It was after she was revived that she asked to see the baby. The midwife who attended to her then told her the baby was dead.

The Council members wanted to know from her if she asked to see the baby before she was told he was dead or that they came to inform her of the death of the baby before she asked to be given the body. She replied that she asked for her baby before she was told he was dead.

At the end of the meeting, the Council members thanked her for honouring their invitation. The Nurses & Midwives Council financed Suwaiba and her relatives’ trip from Kumasi to Accra and back to Kumasi.

Speaking to the ‘Daily Post’ afterwards, spokesperson for the family, Abdul Rahman said the family was waiting for Friday to hear what the Ministry of Health has to say after which they will embark on their next line of action.

Lawyer Evans Amankwah told this paper that suing KATH was just one of the many options available to his client. He took a dim view of the inability of KATH to produce the baby to date, adding that what Suwaiba deserves is the kind of justice that will completely wipe her pain or ease it considerably.