An abandoned newborn baby, dumped by her mother at birth has
lost her life after two hospitals rejected her as a result of lack of hospital
bed space. The baby was found inside a carton around Great Aduke School, Victory
Estate in Iba area of Lagos state. She was then taken to two hospitals, who
rejected her due to a lack of bed space, by the time she was admitted, it was
too late.
It was gathered that the baby girl was discovered by a young
man (names withheld) who had gone to inspect his building site in the estate. According
to him, "on getting to my site, I started hearing an unusual sound. I kept
moving towards the direction of the sound. As I moved closer, I discovered a
baby inside a carton soaked in blood, still attached to the placenta.
“Immediately I saw the baby I raised alarm and people
gathered. A woman among the crowd carried the baby to her house to clean up
while I reported my finding at the police station.”
It was gathered that the young mother allegedly took labour
inducing drugs to terminate her seven-month-old pregnancy.According to the
source, when the pains became unbearable the girl’s friend, in the middle of
the night, took her to the house of a nurse on the street, who refused to
attend to her.
"However, her friend eventually took delivery of the baby at
the roadside close to the nurse’s house."
Recalling what possibly transpired in the night of the
incident, one of the landlords adjacent to the scene of the delivery, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity said: “That night at about 2 am, we couldn’t
sleep as we heard voices calling on the nurse that lives in that building.
"The shout was so intense, disturbing the serenity of the
community. It was dark, nobody could come out because of the activities of oil
bunkerers.
"In the morning, I went outside only to find blood
everywhere especially at the scene of the delivery but I was not sure of why
there was so much blood everywhere until a man found a new born baby girl
dumped at his site."
According to one of the residents of the area, Iya Abosede, "The girl is from a good background. Sincerely, I do not know what went wrong.
Although she tried as much as she could to hide the pregnancy, the entire
community knew she was pregnant outside wedlock. But we didn’t know she was
capable of abandoning the baby after birth."
Police on patrol from Adolf Police post took the baby to
El-Shadai Hospital for first aid. The doctor at the hospital after
administering first aid referred the baby to Igando General Hospital but she
was not admitted for lack of bed space.
From there the police took the baby to Isolo General
Hospital where she couldn’t also be admitted for the same reason. At this point
the baby needed life support to survive, so the police carried it to Mercy
Hospital at Adeniji Adele, where she was finally admitted and placed in the
incubator. Unfortunately it was too late and the baby died.
11 Comments
Upon al d hospital gospel dat fashola is preaching
ReplyDeleteI can't blv it's hapenin in Lag
ReplyDeleteAl dez girls dumping dier kids don't deserve to live
ReplyDeleteSad
ReplyDeleteIt's such a pity
ReplyDeleteTerrible
ReplyDeleteFashola go see ds one
ReplyDeleteWat wil we cal our kind of govt
ReplyDeleteSad...why do girls lik dumping dier kids afta sufring 9 mnts wif labor
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame
ReplyDeleteDis is realy shameful
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