Police in Kumasi have charged seven people believed to be staff of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) with stealing and conspiracy to steal a baby.

The charge follows investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a baby said to have died at birth at the hospital.

Ashanti Region Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Tanko confirmed the charges to Joy News' Beatrice Adu but would not disclose the identities of the suspects.

He said investigations are still ongoing to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of the baby.

Kumasi has been left in a state of shock and anarchy after a baby reportedly born dead to a woman, named only as Suwaiba at the KATH could not be found.

Suwaiba is reported to have thumbprinted documents confirming the death of the baby but all efforts to retrieve the body for burial in accordance with Islamic traditions of the mother have been futile.

Hospital authorities say they cannot locate the body of the baby.

Nurses say an orderly, hired only two weeks before the incident, picked the baby with instructions to take it to the morgue but a search at the mortuary revealed the body had not been deposited there.

The orderly initially claimed he incinerated the body of the baby but the hospital authorities have denied the claim saying the incinerator had not been used in several days.

The orderly has since been handed over to the police and is in custody.

Family of the deceased baby demanded the body and reportedly attacked and assaulted some doctors and nurses.

The doctors and nurses in anger and in fear of further attacks withdrew their services for about a week. They returned only after several appeals and promises of increased police presence to secure the hospital and their private homes.

Hospital authorities promised to liaise with the police to get to the bottom of the matter.

On Thursday, ASP Tanko said seven people have now been arrested and charged in connection with the missing baby.

It is not clear if the orderly is one of those charged.

Meanwhile, the public is mounting pressure on the hospital to produce the missing baby, dead or alive.

Some people  said to be sympathetic to the cause of the mother of the missing baby have set up a facebook account in which they are calling on all Ghanaians to support the campaign to pressurise the hospital authorities to produce the baby.

Beatrice Adu says the account has received over a thousand endorsements already.

Others have also set up an "ipetition" website, in which they say the mother of the baby deserves to take her baby home for outdooring or for burial.