This follows a accusation filed by Mustapha in 2020, accusing the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, the Ministry of Health, and the Attorney General of apathy that led to the afterlife of his wife afterwards a Caesarean Section at the facility, as appear by thelawplatform.online.
Background
The abundant woman, Akua Nyarko Osei-Bonsu, had been accepting antenatal affliction at the Ridge Hospital back 2019.
In November, a Doppler browse at the hospital appear that she had astringent Intrauterine Growth Restriction( IGUR) and aberrant umbilical avenue and Aberrant Umbilical Avenue Doppler, a activity which acicular to placental insufficiency.
Based on these findings, the address said, an emergency Caesarean Section was appointed in December 2019 to save the lives of mother and baby.
However afterwards the operation, Akua developed thromboembolism, which led to her afterlife and that of the baby.
Claims of apathy
In 2020, almost a year afterwards the afterlife of his wife, Mustapha accomplished acknowledged activity adjoin the hospital, the Ministry of Health and the Attorney General, at an Accra High Court.
He claimed amercement arising from the afterlife of his wife to the tune of GH¢5 million.
The General Jurisdiction 7 of the High Cloister in the case of Mohammed Mustapha v Attorney-General, Ministry of Health judgement delivered judgement on July 31, 2024, the address said .
It upheld the claims of Mustapha but awarded added than bisected of the breakthrough of amercement arising from behindhand conduct of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, amid at Ridge.
His attorneys argued that the Ridge Hospital, agents and administration were behindhand in their duties.
They said the hospital's accepted affliction includes both a pre- operating and postoperative accepted affliction which includes antibacterial anticoagulant therapy, which the hospital's administration bootless to attach to, to anticipate altitude like thromboembolism.
Although Mustapha purchased the all-important anticoagulant, it was not administered to his wife, the address added.
His acknowledged aggregation said although the hospital was acquainted of his wife's condition, they bootless to booty antitoxin measures.
They acicular out that added methods such as the use of compression stockings and aboriginal mobilisation should accept been active to anticipate thromboembolism, a activity in which a claret array (thrombus) break off from its aboriginal armpit and campaign through the bloodstream.
They cited the abortion of these antitoxin methods as arch to her death.
The Cloister upheld Mustapha's affirmation of negligence, advertence that the hospital bootless to accommodate able affliction to the deceased, emphasising that their affliction fell beneath the accepted procedure.
The cloister said there was a aperture of the National Health Policy and Ghana's charge to affectionate healthcare bloodshed beneath the Sustainable Development Goal, which seeks to end preventable deaths of newborns and accouchement beneath 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to abate neonatal bloodshed to at atomic as low as 12 per 1,000 alive births and under-5 bloodshed to at atomic as low as 25 per 1,000 alive births by the end of 2030.
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