Catholic Hospital accused of selling parts of dead patient in baby theft scandal

A 31-year-old nurse, Faith Obinna, has accused medical personnel of St. Raphael Divine Mercy Specialist Hospital, Ikorodu, Lagos State, of stealing her baby moments after delivery.

The distraught woman insisted that she delivered twins and that one of them was stolen in the labour room of the hospital, which had before now been fingered in the sale of the body parts of patients who died in the healthcare facility, before she could recover from anaesthesia.

Obinna explained that anaesthesia was given to her before a Caesarean Section was carried out on her to bring out the twins.

She said the anaesthesia was given to her even after she had told doctors at the hospital she didn’t want it.

According to her, she had the CS on March 6, 2020 and recovered to see the doctor presenting her with a baby, while she was expecting twins.

She insisted that her second baby was stolen by the hospital.

She further explained that after registering at the hospital, she was asked to carry out three scans and each showed the two babies.

She said even the heart beats of the two babies were different and the laboratory technician showed her everything on the screen of the scan machine.

The scan also showed that one of the babies was a boy, but the sex of the other couldn’t be determined because its leg covered the sex organ.

Obinna said: “On the first day I registered at the hospital, one doctor Ade that attended to me asked me to go for scan.

“The scan showed twins.

“The pregnancy was then four months.

“The second scan was to determine the sex of the babies.

“One was a boy, but the technician couldn’t tell the sex of the other baby because its leg covered the organ part.

“I was later handed over to Doctor Uzoma, who took care of me until delivery.”

Obinna explained that in the process of subsequent ante-natal visits, Uzoma asked her to do another scan, which she did.