A delegation from the family of Suweiba Mumin, the woman whose baby went missing at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital recently, is scheduled to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council in Accra on Wednesday.
Sources close to the family say Suweiba will be part of the delegation but have declined to give details.
Although the agenda for the meeting is unclear, insiders say the Accra meeting will be the third between the Council and the Kumasi-based family since Suweiba’s baby went missing in February this year.
Hospital officials had told Sueiba that her baby died shortly after he was delivered on February 5, 2014 but the young mother has repeatedly disputed the claim and has demanded a probe.
The Health Ministry is on record to have given the Nursing and Midwifery Council an April 15, 2014 deadline to submit to the Ministry a report on its investigations into the matter. But, CitiNews is reliably informed that the Council has so far failed to meet the Ministry’s deadline.
Officials of the Ghana Medical and Dental Council, another institution tasked by the Minister to probe the incident, have however submitted their investigative report to the Ministry.
In an earlier interview with CitiNews, the Public Relations Officer of the Health Ministry, Tony Goodman said a committee will meet on the Ghana Medical and Dental Council’s report and make recommendations to the Minister.
According to him, during deliberations, “a lot of things will be put in context; when you look at when this issue happened [and] how it happened…”
Hospital authorities have so far asked the Doctor and Nurse on duty at the time the baby went missing to proceed on leave, pending investigations.
Also, the Hospital Board recently directed the Chief Executive of KATH, Professor Ohene Adjei, to proceed on leave after a directive from the Minister of Health, Sherry Ayittey.
The Ministry’s directive followed the KATH’s inability to produce the bodies of all the missing babies recorded at the Hospital this year.
The hospital’s board has since appointed Isaac Offei Gyimah as the new acting Chief Executive Officer of the hospital.
By: Nana Boakye Yiadom/citifmonline.com/Ghana