A woman, who had posed as a health worker, has stolen a baby at the maternity complex of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned the father of a newborn twins, Ibrahim Dallami Khalid, who had one of them stolen, said the woman now at large, had entered the ward where his wife and the twins were on Wednesday.
She had posed as an official at the hospital and told his wife that one of the twins needed to be taken to another ward in the hospital and she had since vanished into thin air.
‘We suspected the woman, who disguised as an official , and entered the room during visiting hours and she greeted all the patients there. I saw the woman but I thought that my wife and her mother knew her.
Later when I left the hospital, my wife asked her mother to bring eggs for her. As she tried to get the eggs, the suspicious woman came again and asked my mother-in-law where she was heading to. She responded and left.
The woman used the opportunity to sit close to my wife, told her that one of the twins was not feeling well and that she wanted to take the baby to the Special Baby Care. My wife allowed her to take the baby. Since then, there has been no information about the baby’s whereabouts’ Ibrahim said.
The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the hospital, Dr. Haruna Liman, described the incident as an unfortunate development.
‘We were told that the culprit had established rapport with the patient and her relative who was staying with her and she had closely monitored their movements.
When the culprit came to pick one of the babies, the mother voluntarily presented the child to her and nobody suspected anything until she raised the alarm that her baby was nowhere to be found’ he said.
Spokesman for the Nigeria Police Force in Bauchi state ,Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, a Superintendent of Police, also confirmed the incident, adding that efforts were already being made to arrest the suspect- Team@orientactualmags.com
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