The disappearance of a placenta and an umbilical cord of a newborn has landed five persons including a medical doctor and three nurses at Government Cottage Hospital, Iloffa in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State in trouble.
The suspects: a resident doctor, three nurses and a ward attendant were arrested after a new mother identified as Mrs C. Williams was delivered of a baby at the hospital on Sunday night.
However, the bundle of Joy’s umbilical cord and placenta were nowhere to be found in the nylons the hospital workers stored all the belongings of Mrs Williams and handed over to the woman.
The latter, a teacher at Orota Secondary School, Odo-Owa, raised concern and sought for the parts to no avail.
The futility of her efforts, family and friends to have the parts in their possessions made them to draw police into the matter, culminating in the arrest of the suspects, and their detention at the State Criminal Investigation Department of the command in Ilorin.
