Photos: Ghanaian lady dies in London because she refused blood transfusion as a Jehovah witness

Oh dear! But why???

A husband has told of his grief for his Jehovah's Witness wife who reportedly died after refusing a blood transfusion.

Adeline Keh, 40, suffered a fatal infection after giving birth by Caesarean section to her son at Homerton Hospital in east London, her distraught husband Kwaku said.

She was transferred to the Papworth heart and lung hospital in Cambridge, where she is said to have refused a blood transfusion and died a month after the birth.

Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to accept blood transfusions because they say blood represents life, and only God is the giver of life.

That belief has led to scores of controversies, many of which have ended up before judges.

Yet the religious movement insists it is 'totally unfounded' to say many Witnesses, including children, die each year after refusing blood.

A statement added: 'Surgeons regularly perform such complex procedures as heart operations, orthopaedic surgery, and organ transplants without the use of blood transfusions.

'Patients, including children, who do not receive transfusions usually fare as well as or better than those who do accept transfusions.

'No one can say for certain that a patient will die because of refusing blood or will live because of accepting it.'