Three hospital personnel, including a nurse, a health assistant, and a security guard, were detained by men from the Ondo State Police Command for the loss of a baby’s placenta at the Comprehensive Health Centre, Emure-IIe, in the state’s Owo Local Government Area.
Tunde Ijanusi, the baby’s father, expressed surprise at the hospital staff’s inability to produce his baby’s placenta and wondered how they could be “so careless” with their work.
Funmilayo Ijanusi, the baby’s paternal grandmother, reported that the health staff claimed a dog entered the premises and stole the baby’s placenta.
According to the spokesperson of the State Police Command, SP Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, the three persons were arrested after the 23-year-old father of the newborn baby made a complaint about the incident at Emure-Ile Police Division H.
Odunlami-Omisanya noted that a 19-year-old nursing mother gave birth to a baby girl on June 15 at the health centre and when the father of the baby asked for the placenta, the nurse and her assistant could not produce it.
She said the two health workers and the security guard on duty had been invited by the police and the case is under investigation at the Emure-Ile Division.