A couple from Mallam Kokroko in the Greater Accra Region has accused the Weija-Gbawe Municipal Hospital (Akawe) and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital of stealing their triplet babies.
The mother of the triplets, Hilda Ninson, said she delivered the babies at Akawe Government Hospital on August 3, 2024.
She said the babies came out preterm.
Due to the facility’s lack of incubators, some nurses arranged to transfer the newborns to the Korle-Bu Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) the next day.
Upon arriving at Korle-Bu, Hilda said the health workers sent her husband, Patrick Gyasi, to get some medicines.
When he returned, the staff informed him that one of the babies had died.
He alleged the body shown to him appeared different from the other two surviving babies.
She continued that the nurses sent the husband again to get more medicines a few hours later.
However, he was told that another one of the babies had died upon his return.
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.
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Citing a conversation she had with a social welfare worker at Akawe Hospital who had asked her to give one of the babies away, the mother said they believed staff at the two hospitals had stolen their babies.
Patrick also claims to have overheard Auntie Mercy, a midwife at Akawe Hospital, discussing selling the babies because the couple was poor.
The distraught parents are, therefore, calling for justice, alleging that the bodies shown to Patrick were much older than his newborn triplets.
Meanwhile, the management of Akawe Government Hospital has confirmed that Hilda gave birth at their facility, and the babies were transferred to Korle-Bu due to a lack of incubators.
They, however, said they could not comment on what transpired at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
The Medical Director of Weija-Gbawe Municipal Hospital, Dr. David Kwabena Okoh, also confirmed the referral of the triplets but declined to comment on the events that followed after the transfer, according to a report by Adom Online.