Osogbo - Health workers and patients at the Osun State
General Hospital, Osogbo were left confused on Friday when a nursing mother,
Mrs Grace Adipe, allegedly abandoned her three-day-old baby in the hospital.
The hospital community was taken aback as the news of the
abandonment spread.
A woman, Adijat Bamijoko, told NAN that she was in the hospital
to assist a patient when the incident occurred on Thursday, and wondered “how a
nursing mother could abandon her child.
“Although, I do not know the woman, but one wonders why she
should abandon her baby in the hospital where Gov. Rauf Aregbesola had made
medication free for all,” she said.
Other people who expressed surprise over the incident, called on
the hospital’s management to ensure that the fleeing mother was brought back to
care for her baby.
Search team , including government officials and law enforcement
agents had failed in their effort to find the woman.
The Osun Commissioner for Women and Children’s Affairs, Mrs
Mofolake Adegboyega, said in a statement that efforts to contact the woman by
the hospital authorities were yet to yield results.
Adegboyega called Adipe’s relations and members of the public to
be vigilant on the whereabouts of the woman.
She urged members of the public to consider the innocence and
future of the child and help in efforts to find the mother and her relations.
The commissioner said that any information about Adipe’s
whereabouts should be directed to the nearest police station or the Director of
Social Welfare in the ministry, Mrs Grace Adegoke. (NAN)
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