By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A newborn baby boy, on Tuesday Jan. 9, 2024, was stolen by a yet-to-be-identified woman at the postnatal ward of Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia.
According to the mother, Wosilat Suleiman, the baby boy was delivered in the early hours of Tuesday through Caesarean Section.
“My relation that was looking after me introduced the strange woman she met in the ward to me before she went home to pick something.
“She told me the woman would take care of me and the baby before she returned from the house.
“My relation thought the woman had a patient at the ward and she trusted her to help me before she returned.
“The woman told me she wanted to bathe the baby and disappeared with him,” Wosilat told newsmen.
Wosilat, who was still in pains, appealed to the authorities to help her find her baby.
The hospital management, in a statement, expressed regret that the theft happened in spite of strict security measures put in place in the facility to protect patients and staff.
According to the hospital’s Acting Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, Dr Mohammed Salihu, this incident was the first time such theft was witnessed in the hospital.
He further stated that Wosilat was delivered of the baby at about 3 a.m. and the baby was handed over to her relation before mother and child were transferred to the postnatal ward.
“Already the relation of the mother of the baby has been arrested and some of our staff on duty were invited by the police for questioning,” Salihu said.
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