Authorities at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital say they will look into the circumstances under which some nurses turned away pregnant women who went to the facility to deliver their babies.

A pregnant woman was reportedly forced to give birth in a Taxi after she was turned away by authorities at the Maternity Ward of the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital because there were no beds.

Reports gathered by Citi News indicate that she was not the only pregnant woman turned away by the authorities of the Hospital.

Mother of one of the women told Citi News, nurses at the maternity ward refused to admit her daughter and other pregnant women for lack of space. According to the mother of the pregnant woman, she pleaded with the doctors on duty to have mercy on her daughter and allow her to give birth at the Hospital but the Doctors refused.

However, speaking to Citi News the Public Relations Officer of the Hospital Mustapha Salifu told Citi News that the Hospital is making arrangements with other facilities for the transfer of some of the pregnant women who have been turned away.

“Our policy is not to turn patients away but sometimes when the numbers are huge and we cannot accommodate them, then we make contacts with other hospitals to allow us send some of the patiients there. At the moment a team has moved to the maternity block and they are yet to give an assessment of what actually happened”.

Police are investigating the disappearance of nine 20-footer containers which were impounded at the Tema Port last week.

The containers carried scrap metals meant for export in defiance of an existing ban.

Public Relations Officer of the Tema Police Command Chief Inspector Olivia Turkson tells Joy News efforts are being made to trace the whereabouts of the containers.

She said the suspects were a 29-year-old Indian and a 30-year-old Ghanaian, Kwaku Asare.

According to her, a CEPS official in January this year lodged a complaint with the police regarding a declaration form presented by Kwaku Asare for the release of the nine containers.

She said although the declaration claimed that the containers contained logs, checks revealed they were filled with scrap materials.

The police PRO said the two will be charged with conspiracy to commit crime.

A powerful tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control. Authorities said at least 32 people were killed.

The magnitude 8.9 offshore quake was followed by at least 19 aftershocks, most of them of more than magnitude 6.0. Dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) stretch of coastline were shaken by violent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the epicenter.

A utility company in northeastern Japan reported a fire in a turbine building of nuclear power plant. A tsunami warning was issued for the entire Pacific, including areas as far away as South America, the entire U.S. West Coast, Canada and Alaska.

Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said at least 32 people were killed.

"The earthquake has caused major damage in broad areas in northern Japan," Prime Minister Naoto Kan said at a news conference.

Even for a country used to earthquakes, this one was of horrific proportions. It unleashed a 23-foot (7-meter) tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland.

Large fishing boats and other sea vessels rode high waves into the cities, slamming against overpasses. Upturned and partially submerged vehicles were seen bobbing in the water.

Waves of muddy waters swept over farmland near the city of Sendai, carrying buildings, some on fire, inland as cars attempted to drive away. Sendai airport, north of Tokyo, was inundated with cars, trucks, buses and thick mud deposited over its runways. Fires spread through a section of the city, public broadcaster NHK reported.

The tsunami roared over embankments, washing cars, houses and farm equipment inland before reversing directions and carrying them out to sea. Flames shot from some of the houses, probably because of burst gas pipes.

"Our initial assessment indicates that there has already been enormous damage," Chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said. "We will make maximum relief effort based on that assessmen