Sandra Baafi Boateng's family seeks £20,000 for her care as GAF details GH¢113,800 in hospital bills and GH¢30,000 cash support.

Published 13 Nov 2026, 07:38 GMT

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The family of Sandra Baafi Boateng, 25, has appealed for public support a year after she was seriously injured in the military recruitment stampede at Kumasi's Baba Yara Stadium.

Her brother, Prince Agyenim Boateng, set up a fundraiser seeking £20,000 for her ongoing care. He writes that Sandra had completed nursing training and was awaiting posting when she went to the stadium hoping to serve the country as a military nurse.

A year on, the family says she remains bedridden, without full consciousness, and unable to walk or speak. She has been discharged home, leaving relatives to shoulder her daily care and its cost, and the appeal had raised £519 from 18 donations by Friday morning.

The Ghana Armed Forces has rejected suggestions that it abandoned her, setting out the support it says it has given since the November 12, 2025 stampede.

Her mother received GH¢30,000 in cash and an air bed at a ceremony at the General Headquarters in Accra on October 28, the day Sandra was discharged.

The military says her sister, Mercy Bioh, is now in training at the Army Recruit Training School at Shai Hills under an arrangement offering enlistment slots to victims' relatives.

It says her treatment will carry on at the 4th Military Hospital in Kumasi.

The military also says it offered a military ambulance for the journey back to Kumasi, but her mother asked for air transport instead, and the family travelled with the National Ambulance Service when no airlift could be arranged.

Sandra was treated at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital until February 26, 2026, when the military flew her to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. In March, Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh told Parliament the government was covering her expenses and was open to treatment abroad if doctors recommended it.

The Kumasi crush happened on the same day as the deadlier stampede at the El-Wak Stadium in Accra, where six young women died during the same recruitment exercise. The government gave each bereaved family GH¢150,000, and by March five of the six families had taken up replacement enlistment slots.

Marking the anniversary on X, former NPP parliamentary candidate for Adentan Akosua Manu asked whether the government had kept its promises to the bereaved families and survivors, and called for the military's Board of Inquiry findings to be published a year on.

She said she had reservations about the official death toll but would hold to the government's figure of six.

The family's fundraiser remains open, while the Armed Forces maintains that its responsibility for Sandra's care did not end with her discharge.

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Military recruitment stampede, one year on: family appeals for Sandra Baafi Boateng

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