COUNTY HOSPITAL AND DR. YEBOAH vs. MARY AFRIFA YEBOAH [2022]DLCA15129

Date	2022-07-28
Suit No.	SUIT NO.: H1/45/2022
Citation No.	[2022]DLCA15129

A. M. DOMAKYAAREH (MRS) J. A. PRESIDING

A. B. POKU-ACHEAMPONG J. A.

S. K. A. ASIEDU J. A.

Kwasi Afrifa for Defendant /Appellant

Dennis Oppong Wiafe for Plaintiff /Respondents

[2022]DLCA15129
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >COUNTY HOSPITAL AND DR. YEBOAH<o:p></o:p>(DEFENDANTS
/APPELLANTS)<o:p></o:p>vs<span lang="en-DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;
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color:#00B0F0;mso-ansi-language:#2000">.<o:p></o:p>MARY
AFRIFA YEBOAH<o:p></o:p>(PLAINTIFF /RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p>[COURT
OF APPEAL, KUMASI]<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: 0in 0in 1pt;">

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>Kwasi Afrifa for Defendant /Appellant<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: 0in 0in 1pt;">

<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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/Respondents<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM<o:p></o:p>A. M. DOMAKYAAREH
(MRS) J. A. PRESIDING, A. B. POKU-ACHEAMPONG J.
A., S. K. A. ASIEDU J. A. <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0in;">

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</div>&nbsp;POKU-ACHEAMPONG,
J.A.:<o:p></o:p>This is an interlocutory appeal from
the ruling of a Kumasi High Court dated 11th March 2021. The
substantive action is a claim for professional negligence against the Defendants/Appellants,
a medical facility in Kumasi, by the Plaintiff who went through a <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">caesarean section procedure at the facility and experienced
health complications.<o:p></o:p>&nbsp;For reasons of convenience the parties
shall retain their original designations in this judgment. Thus the
Plaintiff/Respondent shall be referred to as the Plaintiff and the
Defendants/Appellants as the Defendants. <o:p></o:p>&nbsp;The Plaintiff issued her writ of
summons and statement of claim on 26/5/20 claiming: <o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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An
amount of Ten Million Cedis (¢10,000,000.00) as compensation for professional
negligence.<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:
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