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Ghana: baby dies as doctor cuts oxygen supply over non-payment of bills
 [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 2018-04-12 |
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