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This is a sigh of relief for health workers sued after the death of a pregnant woman at Kankan Regional Hospital. At the end of their trial, justice concluded that they were not guilty of the acts of manslaughter with which they were accused. The verdict fell on Monday, July 19, 2021, at the Kankan Court of First Instance, the Guineematin.com correspondent found on the spot.
After several weeks of detention in the civil prison of Kankan, Dr Mamady Souaré (head doctor of the maternity unit of the Kankan regional hospital), Dr Fodé Kaba (doctor) and Fatoumata Camara (midwife), regain their freedom. The Kankan Magistrates’ Court ruled that the three health workers are not responsible for the death of Mariame Kandé, a 12 weeks pregnant woman, who died on May 16, 2021 at the maternity ward of the Kankan regional hospital. .
Only the midwife was sentenced (less severe than the one she incurred) in this case. The court reclassified the facts of manslaughter as corruption for which she was prosecuted in corruption (because she had claimed an amount of 700,000 francs from the family of Mariame Kandé as treatment costs). For this, she was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with a suspended sentence and a fine of one million francs. As for the two doctors, they were simply dismissed for prosecution for unconstitutional misdemeanor.
The death of Mariame Kandé had aroused great indignation in Guinea. This led the government to issue a press release announcing the suspension of the head doctor of the maternity ward of the Kankan regional hospital and the midwife who looked after the patient, and their provision to the police for for investigative purposes. At the end of the preliminary investigation, Dr Mamady Souaré and Fatoumata Camara were indicted for manslaughter and placed under arrest warrant in Kankan civilian prison. A few later, Dr Fodé Kaba, another doctor on duty in this hospital center was also charged and placed in preventive detention.
During their trial, the defendants all denied the facts against them, assuring that they had no responsibility for the death of this pregnant woman. But the public prosecutor at the Kankan TPI, Aly Touré, was not convinced by their explanations. He had asked the court to retain them in the links of the prevention of manslaughter and to sentence the midwife to 5 years imprisonment with suspended sentence and 5 million francs fine, and the doctors to 3 years. imprisonment with suspended sentence and a fine of 3 million francs.
From Kankan, Abdoulaye N’koya Sylla for Guineematin.com
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