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Ghana: baby dies as doctor cuts oxygen supply over non-payment of bills |
2018-04-12 |
[AFRICANEWS] A nine-week-old baby boy has died at a local hospital in the Central Region of Ghana because his parents could not afford the cost of aiding his breathing with an oxygen machine. According to a local media, Joy fm, the baby died at the St Gregory Hospital at Kasoa.Little Prosper’s parents told Joy News that a medical doctor on duty pulled the plug from the oxygen machine because they could not pay GHS 533 about $ 122 to keep their son alive. Hospital authorities are tight-lipped on the issue explaining they are investigating the circumstances leading to the baby’s death. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 "Little Prosper" is an unlikely name. Ancient Hawaiians would sometimes give their infants really foul names to ward off evil spirits that might harm them. Later in life the kids would be renamed with something better. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-12 11:45 |