Plateau Hospital Hands Over Stolen Baby to Rightful Parents

By Golok Nanmwa ,Jos

Management of Plateau Specialists hospital in Jos the state capital on Monday handed over a baby who was stolen from her mother in the hospital over two weeks ago to her rightful parents with a promise to “immortalise the baby” and beef up security in the hospital to forestall a repeat of the incident.

It would be recalled that the baby was recovered five days ago but was yet to be handed over to the parents and the hospital had said the baby was sick and needed to be given urgent medical attention.

Acting Chief Medical Officer, CMD of the hospital, Dr. Philemon Golwa who officially handed over the baby to her Mother, Mary Chukwuebuka charged the parents to take proper care of the baby as she is a special gift judging from the circumstance where she was abducted and later found.

According to Dr. Golwa, “Today is a day of celebration of a life that was thought to be lost but now has been found. On that faithful day when we were told that this baby was missing, we were worried, we went to the Police, they did their work and most of our staff here were interrogated and kept behind the counter and we had to allow them to do their work. I was not sure of what to say throughout the period but God has made it this way that today, we are celebrating.

“Any baby that comes with many circumstances like, they turn out to be great people in the society, that is why we have to tell the whole world was is happening, we had a breakthrough last Thursday and the person that did the technical work of transferring the baby from here to another hospital has been nabbed and she admitted to her fault.

“The Police are trying to demystify how the baby was taken from the Ward and how she found her way to another hospital. For us here, we celebrate with the parents. We have seen our lapses, after this, we are taking some measures to correct the abnormalities, the incident was very technical, we are going to reinforce some of the basic mechanism of security within the hospital. Not many people will be pleased but you have to bear with us because we need to curtail something like this.

“For the mother, we will follow up and ensure her treatment is completed, we will be monitoring the progress of the baby from time to time, we are going to immortalize the baby and as part of our contribution, we taking care of their bills, we don’t expect them to pay any bills again.”

Expressing her gratitude, the parents of the baby, Nwagod and Mary Chukuwebuka appreciated all those who stood by them to ensure the baby was recovered saying they have decided to name the baby, Onyiyechi, God’s gift.

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Plateau Hospital Hands Over Stolen Baby to Rightful Parents