By William Yaw Owusu
Wednesday, June14 ,2006.
A Fast Track High Court in Accra yesterday commenced proceedings into the case in which a 14 year old boy has filed a suit against the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, claiming ¢800 million damages for negligence.
The suit, filed through the boy’s mother, Gladys Darko, cites the governing board of the hospital as well as Dr Kennedy Addo, Dr Korpisah and Dr Agbeko, all employees of Korle-Bu, for a “wrongful operation” they conducted on him in September, last year.
The suit said the doctors had operated on the boy’s left knee instead of the right, after he was diagnosed of a torn patella ligament.
Furthermore, according to the suit, his father suffered a cardiac arrest and died as a result of the doctors’ negligence.
Mr Thomas Hughes, counsel for the plaintiff told the court presided over by Mr Justice E K Ayebi that some of the additional issues set out in the defendants statement of defence were not necessary as far as the determination of the suit was concerned.
But Nana Yaa Faibille ,counsel for the defendants said the additional issues were “very necessary because in one of our issues we said that the condition in which the boy reported is different from what we diagnosed”.
The court therefore ruled that some of the additional issues raised by the defendants “are relevant and should be included in their defense” and the case was adjourned to June 28.
The issues to be included are whether or not the boy was diagnosed with an avulsion of the right tibial teberosity and calcification in the right patella tendon.
There is also the issue of whether or not the muscle of the plaintiff ‘s left knee were laxed and therefore needed to be operated upon and whether or not the boy had ever reported to the defendant for any reviews after the surgery was performed.
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