Nurses Allegedly Misplace Newly Born Child

A middle-aged man identified as Bob, whose wife gave birth at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) has called for caution among nurses and midwives in the hospital.

Bob claimed he was prompted to sound the warning after an experience he encountered following the birth of his baby boy at RSUTH.

While speaking to newsmen, he urged health workers in charge of delivery and the management of RSUTH to be more careful when handling newly born babies in their facility. 

According to Bob, his wife was handed another baby (female child) instead of a male child to breastfeed by one of the nurses at the hospital.

With disapproval, his wife raised an alarm calling that the child she was given is not her child and after some minutes their baby was returned to them, where the nurse on duty pleaded that the exchange was a mistake.

He said, “When I came to the hospital, my wife and my mum told me that the hospital management said that I abandoned my baby. After then, we went to see the baby and when my wife got there, the baby they gave her to breastfeed wasn’t her baby actually because I think the nurses were not careful while checking the babies.

“So, I went back there and now saw my baby. One other nurse at the nursery was also wondering why my wife was breastfeeding another baby. She later showed us our baby.

“I think the nurses need to be more careful with things like this to avoid confusion.”