Three medical personnel at the Emure-Ile Comprehensive Health Center in Ondo State’s Owo council area have been detained in connection with the suspected disappearance of the placenta of a newborn delivered there.
The hospital staff failed to give the placenta to the baby’s father, Tunde Ijanusi, 23, after the baby was delivered, and he raised concern.
Speaking about the unpleasant experience, the baby’s paternal grandmother, Mrs. Funmilayo Ijanusi, said hospital staff said a dog broke into the building and stole the placenta.
The hospital staff also convinced the family not to be concerned about the development, according to Mrs. Ljanusi.
According to her” when we insisted that they should produce the placenta, they begged us not to make an issue out of it since it’s not their fault that dog came into the health centre and took away the placenta.
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” It was when we realized that they were hiding something that we reported the matter at the police station.
” They should produce the placenta. Because we learnt that they sell it to some people who use it for spiritual purposes.
Vanguard gathered that three health workers were later arrested for questioning after the matter was reported by the parents of the baby.
Reacting to the incident, the state chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has absolved its members from the alleged missing placenta of a newborn baby at the Health Centre in Owo.
Its Chairman of the Association, Comrade Kehinde Olomiye, said that “the two health workers and security man apprehended in connection with the stolen placenta, were not qualified nurses and not members of the association.
Olomiye asked the police and the hospital authorities to carry out a thorough investigation of the incident to prevent a recurrence.
Reacting, the spokesperson for the state police command, Funmi Odunlami, confirmed that three persons have been arrested in connection with the missing placenta.
Odunlami said that police detectives are interrogating the suspects and if found culpable would be charged in court.
She declined to give the identities of the suspects being interrogated by police detectives.
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