A one-and-half-year-old baby Stephen Otchere has been detained by authorities of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) over unpaid bills.
The child who was admitted at the Burns and Intensive Care Unit on July 8, 2017 and discharged on August 16, 2017, still remains at the hospital due to the inability of his parents to settle the bills.
Principal Nursing Officer of KATH, Madam Theresa Kwaah who confirmed the incident said the parents owe the hospital an amount of GHC10, 181.00. (Ten Thousand one hundred and eighty-one Ghana cedis).
But the unemployed mother of the boy, Agnes Nkrumah, said she cannot afford to pay the bills and is appealing to churches, philanthropists, and institutions to come to her aid.
According to her, she has spent over GHC2, 000 already on bills since the little boy was admitted over a month ago.
Agnes narrates that her baby got burnt after she left him close to a coal pot with boiling water on it. She said she only left to pick something from her room only for her to return to find the baby crying with the hot water all over him.
“I was boiling water on a coal pot, so I went to the room to pick something, by the time I returned, the water had poured on my son and he was wallowing in pain,” she explained.
