The father of a newborn baby, Kayode Alatise, caused a stir at the Otunba Tunwase National Paediatric Centre, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, on Wednesday over the alleged “disappearance” of his baby’s placenta.
Alatise alleged that the hospital
management told him on Monday when his wife, Falilat, delivered their
first baby that the placenta was missing.
He caused commotion as he threatened doctors and nurses at the centre located along the Sagamu-Benin Expressway.
The father of the baby insisted that
neither him nor his wife was given the baby’s placenta, adding he
rejected the placenta the hospital later attempted to return to him
because he was not sure it was actually his baby’s own.
He said, “We were referred to this
hospital, and when we got here they demanded N230,000 for caesarian
section. I was told that if I did not pay N50,000 deposit, they would
not commence surgery. I begged them that night, but they said they would
not do the operation until I paid. Before I got the money, it was
already 8am.
“After the operation, my wife asked me
if I had collected the placenta, but I told her no. The nurses and the
ward security now came to tell me that they saw me when I went to the
surgery room to take the placenta.
“After I reported the matter to the
police, they now called me to say that they had found the placenta. But
how am I sure that that is my baby’s placenta. They told me on Monday
that the placenta had got lost.”
The Deputy Medical Director and
Consultant Gynaecologist/Obstetrician, Dr. Oladayo Ogunlaja, who took
delivery of the baby, denied the allegation that any placenta got
missing.
Ogunlaja said the placenta was only
mistakenly taken into the hospital’s laundry by the cleaning attendant
who cleared out the Operating Room after Alatise’s wife was delivered of
the baby.
He added that if Alatise was not sure
that the placenta given to him was his baby’s, he could do a scientific
test to prove its genuineness.
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