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.
=culled from www.vanguardngr.com
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