Management of Kano state Hospitals Management Board has refuted a story making the arounds that a baby born at Waziri Shehu Gidado General Hospital was stolen.
The story explained it was the mother of the baby that came on admission with the baby and her grandmother as the caretaker of the patient who was solely responsible for looking after the baby.
On Friday the the 19th of this month the grandmother of the child was holding the child outside the ward and later decided to go and pray as it was time
Thus a lady sitting next to her offered to hold the child for her.
The story added that grandmother did not hesitate to give the child to the lady it was after the prayers that the grandmother failed to notice where the baby could be traced as she was nowhere to be seen
The baby in question was stolen between 6:30 and 7:30pm In the evening.
The statement added that when the grandmother raised an alarm it prompted the attention of all the management, staff on duty and immediately searching began to see if they could trace the lady.
The facility which is one of the largest statewide usually attends to atleast 300 in and out patients a day.
It described what transpired as an act of negligence from the caretaker’as the hospital intervened in searching for the missing child as part of its responsibility for aiding the helpless parents and for the fact that the baby was stolen in the facility.
The statement called those speculating the story to verify before making it public in the interest of fairness and justice as this will help in safeguarding apprehension in the minds of people.
