An alleged baby trafficking syndicate has been busted by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Medical and Dental Council after an investigation was carried out in Ghana.

According to the Executive Director of EOCO, Frank Adu Poku, the buying and selling of babies has been on the radar of the crime office for a while and has so far resulted in the arrested of at least 10 suspects.

These suspects are said to be doctors, nurses, social welfare workers, traditional birth attendants and mothers who operated in various hospitals in the Greater Accra Region.

“Medical and Dental Council and Economic and Organised Crime Office have been investigating the activities of some medical practitioners and other individuals who were suspected to be engaging in an illegal act of baby harvesting and human trafficking.

“As a result of this investigation, two doctors, four nurses, two social welfare workers, a traditional birth attendant and two mothers have been arrested so far,” he stated.

Unfortunately, medical practitioners who are entrusted with the responsibility of providing assistance to mothers and their newly born babies have gone back on their Hippocratic oaths and are selling babies as a business venture.

Mr Adu Poku recounted a transaction of a month old baby boy on December 31, 2020, by a doctor with the 37 Military Hospital.

He is said to have been arrested at his private health facility, Susan Clinic located at Latebiokoshi where he allegedly sold the baby boy for an amount of GH₵30,000.

Mr Quashie was arrested with 3 nurses who worked with his facility.

In a similar case, somewhere at the Tema General Hospital, a mother was about to be separated from her newly born baby boy forever by a medical practitioner.

Her baby boy was sold for an amount of GH₵ 28,000 by a social welfare officer at the Tema General Hospital, Mr Leonard Agbley.

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