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General News of Wednesday, 2 July 1997

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Committee On KATH Presents Report

Accra (GAR), June 27, - A nine -member Management Board of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, set up to investigate an incidence involving the death of one person and the It would be recalled that the Ministry of Health instituted an enquiry into the two incidents of alleged negligence of duty by staff of the hospital following media reports. The victims were a retired army sergeant, William Yeboah , who died following head injuries he received when an oxygen bottle fell on his head while on admission and Efia Dankwa, the infant who The board under the Chairmanship of Nana Otuo Siriboe II, Juabenhene, interviewed some 16 persons including patients who were then on admission but have been discharged. He said the team went to the scene of the accident at ward D3 and later had an auptosy conducted on Yeboah.