Legal practitioner, Francis-Xavier Sosu says he will file a medical malpractice lawsuit against St. Dominic Hospital in Akwatia in the Eastern Region to seek damages over the injury of a year old baby.
The right hand of the baby is rotting as a result of alleged clinical negligence.
The baby boy, a twin was admitted to the facility on November 31, last year, for treatment of a childhood hernia.
However, according to the nursing mother, a poorly inserted cannula by a clinician at the hospital led to swelling of the hand of the baby.
The condition worsened within a few days at the hospital but urgent attention was not paid to the baby.
The baby was, however, discharged on December 31, without the intended surgery performed or treatment of the cannula infection which led to an abscess of the hand.
Dagadu Lydia, mother of the twins said she went back to the hospital to complain about the worsening condition of the baby but management refused to hear her.
“They are twins. The elder twin is the one they have damaged the hand. I went to the hospital with the baby on November 31, and on December 4, a Doctor by the name of Dr Abu was trying to set the line for the cannula but was struggling to get the vein so he asked for help from another Doctor. The next day my baby’s hand was swollen.
“When I started complaining they came to take away the cannula. They further conducted a scan and told me the hand of the boy has damaged, that they need to cut off the damaged hand which I opposed. I insisted they explain to me what caused it but they refused,” she narrated.