A new born baby abandoned by her mother was recently discovered in a
swampy dump-site around Great Aduke School, Victory Estate in Iba area
of Lagos. However, the baby finally died after being rejected by two
public hospitals. Vanguard gathered that the baby girl was
discovered inside a carton 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.”
The delivery Vanguard
reliably 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,” the source said.
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.” Moves to save the baby:
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.
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