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”.