Mr. Adjei Frimpong, the Administrator in charge for Central Regional Hospital has called on clinicians to launch a massive campaign on educating the public on why it is essential to support babies with strange features live.
His advice comes on the heels of a 16-year-old mother who delivered a conjoined twin at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital on Tuesday and refused to accept the children.
The teenage mother, who is said to be traumatized, is yet to set eyes on her children. She is said to also be in fear of ridicule by members of her community because of her babies.
The father of the babies according to the babies' mother has refused to support.
According to Mr. Adjei Frimpong it was vital for clinicians to assist mothers with �deformed� babies understand that the features of their babies have nothing to do with �spirituality�.
Speaking on Okay FM, Mr. Adjei recommended that it was better to wipe out the spiritual myth attached to babies born with deformities.
He claimed unlike the way mothers treated their deformed babies in Ghana, mothers in western countries gave their wards all the needed attention and support needed.
�It is only in Ghana that we attach spirituality to such matters. In western countries, such babies are given the needed support by their parents and they live their lives as normal beings�, he said.
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