Force-feeding children can cause serious complications —Paediatrician warns

“We started this stop force-feeding campaign, ‘Protect My Little Lungs’, about two years ago because we noticed that over the span of about two years, we saw a lot of children who had come in with complications of being force-fed.

A paediatrician at the unit, Dr Amanda Fofie, told The Mirror in an interview in Accra last week that the facility had, over a period of about two years, seen several children with complications resulting from force-feeding.

The warning follows concerns over children being admitted to the Rebecca Akufo-Addo Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital with complications associated with force-feeding.