A Human Resource expert says the Health Minister’s directive for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) to proceed on leave over the missing baby saga is a violation of best practice.

Speaking to Joy News Wednesday, the Executive Director for the Institute of Human Resource Management practitioners, Ebenezer Ofori Agbetor noted that the best practice to follow is to discuss the issue at stake with the appointing body and the decision communicated in the form of an official letter to the person affected by the directive.

"If this took place in the KATH issue, then there is no violation, he intimated.

Mr. Agbetor further noted that in the current issue, the board of KATH should have communicated the decision of the Health Ministry to the CEO, which had not been done and thus flouts best practices.

The Health Ministry has confirmed to Joy News that it is yet to dispatch the letters directing the CEO of KATH to proceed on leave.

The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Health Ministry, Tony Goodman told Joy News that the KATH CEO will receive the letter asking him to proceed on leave byThursday, March 27, 2014. The substantive Minister had already announced his dismissal at a press conference, Tuesday.

Mr. Goodman says the ministry is following the right procedures in communication its decision on the investigations conducted on the missing baby issue at the health facility to the CEO.

KATH CEO, Professor Ohene Adjei yesterday became a casualty of a long drawn investigation into the controversy surrounding some missing still born babies at the hospital.

He was asked to proceed on leave immediately, while the hospital board finds a replacement.

But Luv FM’s Ohemeng Tawiah, who has been following events at the hospital, reported that the CEO of KATH, Prof. Ohene Adjei, is still at post.

According to the board, it is yet to receive official communication from the Health Ministry on its directive asking the CEO of the hospital to proceed on leave and therefore it is waiting for official communication before acting on the directive.

Meanwhile, family of Suwaiba, the woman, whose case ignited the entire probe, say they are not interested in compensations. They insist, they want their baby dead or alive.

Speaking to Joy News, the family spokesperson, Mohamed Abdul Rahman noted that the family is disillusioned that nothing has been said about their baby in the interim report of the investigation.

They are however calling for those implicated in the issue to face the full rigours of the law as they are expecting to hear the actual account of the baby, when the full reports come out in two weeks time.

However, if there  is no evidence of the baby, the family said, they will proceed to court and fight for their right since they believe the baby is alive.