A couple living at Mallam Kokroko, in the Weija Gbawe Municipality of the Greater Accra Region, has accused health workers at Akawe Government Hospital and Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of allegedly stealing their newborn triplets.
According to Hilda Ninson, the mother of the triplets, she gave birth to her preterm babies at Akawe Government Hospital on August 3, 2024.
Due to the hospital’s lack of incubators, the staff, led by a nurse named Auntie Mercy, arranged for her triplets to be transferred to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital the next day.
Hilda claims upon arriving at Korle-Bu, her husband was sent to buy some medicines.
While he was away, hospital staff informed him that one of the babies had died.
When he returned, he said the body shown to him allegedly appeared different from the other two surviving babies.
Hours later, they claim the hospital staff sent her husband to purchase more medicines and by the time he returned, he was told a second baby had also died.
On August 5, 2024, the couple said they received a call from the NICU department at Korle-Bu informing them that the third triplet had also passed away.
The distraught mother is convinced medical staff at Korle Bu have old her babies.
She cited a conversation she had with a Social Welfare worker at Akawe Hospital, who had asked her to give one of the babies away.
Also, her husband, Patrick Gyasi, claims to have overheard Auntie Mercy, a midwife at Akawe Hospital, discussing selling the babies because the couple was poor.
Patrick is calling for justice, alleging that the bodies shown to him were much older than his newborn triplets.
Meanwhile, Adom News contacted the management of Akawe Government Hospital, where officials confirmed that Hilda did give birth at their facility, and the babies were transferred to Korle-Bu due to a lack of incubators.
However, they said they were unaware of what transpired at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and could not comment on that.
Medical Director of Weija-Gbawe Municipal Hospital, Dr. David Kwabena Okoh, also confirmed the referral of the triplets to Korle-Bu but declined to comment on the events that followed after the transfer.
The couple is demanding answers and an investigation into the matter, as suspicions of foul play surround the deaths of their triplets.
Adom News is still working on getting a response from the Management of the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital on this matter.