A yet to be identified woman had on Tuesday stolen a newborn baby at the postnatal ward of Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (DASH) Lafia.
Speaking to newsmen about the unfortunate incident at the hospital, Mrs
Wosilat Suleiman, mother of the one-day old baby said her child was stolen around 6:00am on Tuesday, Jan. 9.
The mother explained that she gave birth to the baby boy through Cesarean Section (CS) around 3:00am on Tuesday.
“My relations that was looking after me introduced the strange woman she met at the ward to me when she wanted to go home to pick something.
“She told me that the woman will take care of me and the baby before she return from the house.
“My relations thought that the woman had a patient at the ward and she trust her to help us before she return.
“The woman told me that she wanted to bath the baby and disappeared with him,” she added.
She therefore, appealed to the relevant authorities to help her find her baby as she was still going through pains.
Reacting to the incident, management of DASH regretted that this had to happen despite the strict security measures put in place in the facility to protect patients and staff.
The management through Dr. Mohammed Salihu, Acting Head of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department said this is the first time such thing happen in the hospital.
He explained that the baby was delivered around 3:00am and handed over to the relations of the patient before they were transferred to postnatal ward.
He added that unfortunately the relations of the patient entrusted a strange woman to look after her sister on account that she wanted to pick something from the house.
He further said that the management had reported the matter to the police immediately and investigation was ongoing to unravel what happened.
“Already the relations of the mother of the baby has been arrested and some of our staff on duty were invited by the police for questioning,” he added.
He therefore promised that the management would review the CCTV footage with a view of arresting the culprit. (NAN).