DR. E.L.A. CHINBUAH vs. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL [2021]DLHC10754

Date	2021-07-21
Suit No.	SUIT NO: GJ/378/2016
Citation No.	[2021]DLHC10754

JUSTICE KWEKU T. ACKAAH-BOAFO

DR. EMMANUEL MAURICE ANKRAH WITH NANA KOFI BEKOE FOR THE PLAINTIFFS – PRESENT

MRS. YVONNE A. AWOONOR-WILLIAMS (MRS.) PSA FOR THE DEFENDANT – PRESENT

[2021]DLHC10754
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >DR. E.L.A. CHINBUAH<o:p></o:p>CAPTAIN J.K. NYAMEKYE<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFFS)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE ATTORNEY GENERAL<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANT)<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
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&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">[HIGH COURT, ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>DR. EMMANUEL MAURICE ANKRAH WITH NANA
KOFI BEKOE FOR THE<o:p></o:p>PLAINTIFFS – PRESENT<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

MRS.
YVONNE A. AWOONOR-WILLIAMS (MRS.) PSA FOR THE DEFENDANT – PRESENT<o:p></o:p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</div>&nbsp;KWEKU T. ACKAAH-BOAFO, J<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">i.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Introduction:<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">[1]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">In an article published in the African Journal of Reproductive Health this year, the authors note
that: “Maternal death is one of the most painful, unforgettable tragedies that
can befall a family or community anywhere… <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Most of these deaths are preventable, yet this
tragedy remains so common in low and middle income countries.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/aggie/Downloads/KAB..JUDGEMENT.Nyamekye.%20v.%20AG.2021.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a> How do loved ones and health care
professionals account for what might have been a preventable death during
childbirth at a major health care facility? Anecdotal evidence of such
preventable deaths abound but it is not often that laypersons and stakeholders
obtain insight into such tragedies as in this case where the doctors who
treated the deceased admit that her death was preventable. This is the factual
dynamic around which this case revolves.<o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">&nbsp;<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">[2]<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-fareast-language:
EN-CA">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The work of the physicians and in
particular those who treated the deceased, Mrs. Helena <o:p></o:p>Abrema Nyamekye
and/or attended to her at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra is called into
question by the Plaintiffs who accuse them of not meeting the standards and the
tenets of their calling as medical doctors/practitioners and, in so doing, seriously breached the trust that they
had in them to provide proper, necessary, and appropriate</main>