News:
June 17, 2014
It appears the controversy surrounding the saga of the missing baby at the Konfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi will not cease any time soon as Parliament has waded into the matter.
The Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Edward Doe Adjaho on Tuesday directed that a copy of the Committee report on the missing baby which was released last week be forwarded to the House for further scrutiny by the Committee on Health and subsequently report back to the House.
According to him, it is important that the report which failed to establish the where about of the babies be probed thoroughly to establish the truth in this unfortunate incident.
“This is a serious issue and all of us should be concerned…If our mothers, wives and sisters go to hospitals to deliver and cannot find their babies after delivery, then that is a serious matter” he said.
The Speaker’s directive follows a request made by the Majority Chief Whip, Alhaji Muntaka Mohammed Mubarak, whose constituent(Suweiba) happen to be one of the women who had her baby gone missing, asking the House to go further into the report, as the main objective of the investigation which is the location of the babies was never established.
News of the missing babies generated a lot of public uproar which led to some Moslem youth storming the Konfo Anokye Teaching Hospital to demand a release of the baby whether dead or alive.
The family of Madam Suweiba has expressed their disapproval over the content of the report and has threatened to seek redress in court.
Meanwhile, Minister of Health, Sherry Aryeetey at a press briefing on Tuesday disclosed that the criminal aspect of the matter has been forwarded to the Attorney General’s Department for further inquiry and likely prosecution.
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