The Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, has denied allegations that babies are switched at birth at the health facility while also submitting that a woman who recently gave birth at the hospital was not given the wrong baby as alleged.
To show commitment to transparency, the hospital has also disclosed plans to conduct a Deoxyribonucleic Acid test which is also called genetic testing to confirm that the woman in question is the ‘real’ mother of the dead newborn baby.
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Recall that a woman, @Aggie_lawlaah had in a social media post accused the hospital of swapping her sister’s newborn baby with a dead baby.
She noted that her sister gave birth to a baby boy at the Gbagada General Hospital on December 3 after being induced two days earlier, the newborn baby, she added, struggled to breathe and was immediately admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for proper care.
She added that workers at the hospital informed the family on December 5, that their baby has passed away and they were subsequently invited to the hospital’s morgue and given the dead baby.
‘On closer inspection of the body, the family noticed a name tag that reads ‘Adefisan baby’ which contradicted their own baby’s name, Okolie’ the woman had submitted.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the hospital’s Medical Director, Dr Olusegun Babafemi, who reacted to the allegations on Saturday, however described the accusations as untrue while assuring the public that the hospital is committed to providing quality healthcare services to the people.
Babafemi added that the hospital will conduct a DNA test to ascertain the true identity of the dead baby while confirming that tag error was a trigger for the accusations.
‘The dad is aware of it. When the baby eventually passed on Thursday morning, the dad was called to identify the baby, it was actually after the identification that they moved the baby to the morgue.
However, at the morgue, what happened was that the paper that went with the baby got the right name, but someone somewhere just put the wrong plaster on the baby. But the daddy knows that the dead baby is his baby.
I don’t want to say much because we will do a DNA test. The hospital has ordered DNA from a reputable centre. The results will be out; there was no swapping.
It is the costliest DNA centre that the family chooses, we said no problem. We have told them Gbagada Hospital will do it because we need to clarify things. So, we have sent for a DNA test’ he said- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
