IBRAHIM MUSTAPHA ISSAH vs. KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL

AMMA A. GAISIE, JA: This appeal is against the judgment of the High Court, Accra, dated the 11th day of January, 2018 by which the High Court made various awards as compensation and damages to the Appellant. The Appellant, then Plaintiff, issued out of the High Court a Writ of Summons on 10th August, 2017 in which he made the following claims:- “1) An order for compensation for the unbearable pain Plaintiff continues to endure and loss of income as at Five Million Ghana Cedis (GH¢5,000,000.00). 2) An order for the payment of general damages for negligence. 3) An order directed at Defendant to remedy the permanent condition Plaintiff is put into or in the alternative to relief (3) payment for cost of all remedial services sufficient to put Plaintiff in sufficiently better state. 4) Cost reflecting cost of the instant suit”. It is the Plaintiff’s case that in May 2016, he was involved in an accident and sustained a minor fracture on his hip bo...