NURSE WHO insisted on referring Ketai’s son from Kanyama Level One Hospital to the University Teaching Hospitals, Newborn section, confirms missing child only had breathing challenges and not red and burnt black skin or body irregularities shown on body of infant UTH claimed is Ketai Mwale’s son.
Coming to the aid of Ketai Mwale-Kangwa, Legal Aid Clinic for Women has demanded that Ketai be given back her missing newborn son.
According to a letter of demand to the Attorney General of Zambia, copied to the Permanent Secretary — Ministry of Health, Kanyama Level One Hospital and UTH, Legal Aid Clinic for Women states that Ketai demands damages for inconvenience, mental anguish and negligence on the part of Kanyama Level One and UTH.
“If you do not respond to us within 14 days of receipt of this letter, we have instructions to seek legal recourse in the courts of law…Our client demands damages worth K500, 000,” reads in part, the letter dated February 4, 2026.
The Clinic says they stand for Ketai because of the manner in which DNA samples were collected from Ketai and a lifeless infant the Hospital claims is hers.
They say UTH refused to allow Ketai to be present as experts extracted samples from a lifeless infant they claimed was hers and further that, no family member witnessed them conduct a postmortem examination as is per procedure.
The letter further points out Kanyama Level One Hospital’s alleged negligence wherein the nurse only identified as Barbara wrote wrong details on the child’s records.
Legal Aid Clinic for Women alleges that Kanyama Level One Hospital failed to make Barbara available and only gave excuses, “Like she is on leave, or stuck in traffic. The hospital management insisted that they would represent her…as a result meeting failed to take place.”
The Clinic tells the Attorney General that their client did not consent to the child who only had a minor breathing issue to be referred to UTH, saying, “Our client was not in support of the proposal that their child be transferred to the University Teaching Hospitals even if it meant that their child would die in her arms.”
And in a separate letter to UTH, the Legal Aid Clinic for Women has demanded that the Hospital does not dispose off the body of the infant in contention.
They say as representatives of Ketai Mwale-Kangwa, they do not agree with the DNA results issued earlier with a claim that Ketai was mother of the child they tested.
In light of the above, the Legal Aid Clinic for Women has demanded that another DNA test is done at a private independent DNA laboratory.
©️ TV Yatu February 25, 2026.
