Mustapha's lawsuit, which additionally called the Attorney General, the Ministry of Health (MoH), and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) as defendants, claimed apathy that led to his wife's afterlife and the astringent agony he endured
Claims In his 2020 statement, Mustapha abundant that his wife began antenatal affliction at Ridge Hospital in July 2019, about 12 weeks into her pregnancy. Her affliction connected commonly until November 20, 2019, back she was asked to accompany in a browse due to a specific complaint
Afterward this, the hospital requested a Doppler scan, which was submitted on December 13, 2019
The Doppler browse appear astringent Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR) with an Abnormal Umbilical Artery Doppler, advertence placental insufficiency
As a result, an emergency Caesarean area was appointed and performed on December 16, 2019. Unfortunately, the babyish did not survive, and aural 24 hours, Akua developed thromboembolism, arch to her death
Mustapha argued that the hospital bootless to chase its accepted protocols, which accommodate developing a absolute pre-operation and post-operation administering plan
Although Mustapha acquired an anticoagulant afore the surgery, the hospital did not administrate it, breaching its own protocols
Ridge Hospital Pulse Ghana According to these protocols, every accommodating ability a Caesarean area should accept antibacterial anticoagulant analysis aural 12 hours post-surgery
Cloister ruling On July 31, 2024, the General Jurisdiction 7 of the High Cloister disqualified in favor of Mustapha in the case of Mohammed Mustapha v. Attorney-General, Ministry of Health
The cloister upheld Mustapha's claims and awarded him added than bisected of the amercement for the hospital's negligence
Mustapha's acknowledged aggregation argued that the hospital agents and administering were behindhand in their duties, declining to attach to accepted affliction practices, including pre-operative and postoperative affliction and the administering of antibacterial anticoagulant therapy
Despite Mustapha's accretion of the all-important anticoagulant, it was not administered to his wife
The attorneys additionally accent the hospital's abortion to apparatus antitoxin measures like compression stockings and aboriginal mobilisation to abstain thromboembolism
The cloister begin that Ridge Hospital's affliction fell beneath accepted procedures, actionable the National Health Policy and Ghana's charge to affectionate healthcare beneath the Sustainable Development Goals
These goals aim to end preventable deaths of newborns and accouchement beneath five, targeting neonatal bloodshed of at atomic 12 per 1,000 alive births and under-5 bloodshed of at atomic 25 per 1,000 alive births by 2030