When 40 year old Kwaku Keh from East London was taking his wife to the hospital to give birth, little did he know that her religious indoctrination was what was going to send her on an earlier than planned visit to her maker.

MailOnline reports Adelaine Ekeh gave birth at London’s Homerton Hospital via C-section, and despite needing a blood transfusion after the procedure, refused it on religious grounds.

This is because Adelaine is a Jehovah’s Witness, who refuse blood transfusions on principle. The report says she suffered a fatal infection soon thereafter, with the official inquest noting her decision to refuse blood may have compromised the final medical intervention. It was also listed, amongst other causes, as the likely cause of death.

The origin behind what I can only describe as a strange belief is that Witnesses say blood represents life, and only God is the giver of life.

Though if I remember clearly that same Bible says ‘God helps those who help themselves’.

It’s all well and good to have faith and believe in something and all that, but when a religious belief can be so obviously detrimental to health it must bow down in the face of reason.

Jehovah’s Witnesses have several controversial beliefs, but this one in particular has been at the centre of so many controversies. And you can obviously see why because it can create conflicts with what medicine needs to effectively carry out its functions.

Despite the many miracles on Tv’ and the like, God is not a magician carrying around a wand fixing people’s problems. At a point beliefs must be examined to find out what purpose they serve in the grand scheme of things. Obsolete beliefs that do not belong in the 21st century should be sent back to wherever they came from.

An investigation into the entire incident has been launched by the hospital.