Tema General Hospital: If a baby died, it wasn’t because of ‘dumsor’ – GHS Accra Director

The Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Akosua Agyeiwa Owusu-Sarpong, has dismissed claims a three-day-old baby died at the Tema General Hospital in the evening of Tuesday, March 26, due to a power outage.

Dr Akosua Owusu-Sarpong explained that investigations from the hospital confirmed a power outage on Tuesday evening, during which their generators initially functioned but later encountered a fault that took approximately two hours to rectify.

In an interview with JoyNews on Thursday, March 28, Dr Owusu-Sarpong stated that hospital machines/equipment had power storage, ensuring continuous treatment of patients/babies on monitors or oxygen during the power outage.

“So if a baby died, it is not as a result of the baby not receiving the necessary care as a result of the power outage because all the machines were working,” she clarified.

She maintained that the unfortunate passing of the three-day-old child at the Tema General Hospital on Tuesday evening could not have resulted from the power outage.

Meanwhile, Rashida Abubakar Tetteh, the grieving mother of the three-day-old baby, has spoken out about the tragic loss of her child, which she blames on the Tuesday, March 26 power outage.

She revealed that, when she went to see her newborn son, a doctor told her the child could not survive due to the non-functional medical equipment during the power outage.