GH₵5m suit against St. John’s Hospital extortionary; Couple prioritised exam over baby’s health – Solicitors

John’s Hospital & Fertility Centre have vehemently countered a GH₵5 million lawsuit filed by Mr Ekow Andoh and Mrs Sandra Tekyiwaa Sackey, whose baby died at the facility.

John’s lawyers firmly denied any wrongdoing, stating, “We wish to emphatically state that our client and its health workers exercised reasonable care in accordance with the established standards and protocols accepted in the medical profession in their duty to Mrs Sandra Tekyiwaa Sackey from her antenatal to the delivery of her baby.”

Prioritizing Exams Over Urgent Delivery

Sackey insisted on attending the exam, significantly delaying critical interventions.

Sackey visited our client’s health facility and upon detection of her signs of labour being water breaking which she claimed happened an hour earlier Mrs Sackey was immediately attended to

“Our client and its health workers through their professionalism persuaded Mrs Sackey over and over again in the interest of her unborn baby to forgo her pending examination that very day.”

After a very prolonged delay on the part of Mrs Sackey who insisted she wanted to leave our client’s hospital to go and write her exams that very day she was to deliver a baby, Mrs Sackey agreed to be admitted upon further advice and persuasion from our Client.”