Sick 4-Year-Old Girl Abandoned At Hospital
A four-year-old girl battling with cerebral palsy, which inhibits proper growth and movement of her body, has been abandoned at the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital, in Lagos.
According to Punch, the mum had sometime last year left the child with her grandmother, identified as Nike Owoyeni, and fled.
The grandmother took the girl to the hospital around December, 2014, where she was reportedly treated and discharged the same day.
After leaving the hospital, Owoyeni headed for the Ogba area of the state and dumped her granddaughter beside a parked truck. The child was said to have been seen by a resident, who took her back to the hospital.
It was said that neither the child’s mother nor the grandmother had shown up since she was admitted about seven months ago.
Efforts to reach Owoyeni, who claimed that she resided in the Alagbado area, had been futile as a phone number she gave at the hospital reportedly indicated ‘wrong number.’
A senior official at the Social Welfare Department of the hospital, who identified herself only as Obilana, said the victim’s condition was very critical when she was brought, adding that the hospital management had been doing all it could to save her life.
She said, “She is suffering from cerebral palsy. She should be four or five years old, but looked extremely skinny. Her body was very stiff when she was brought here last year. But we have recorded some improvement. She also had a body odour, which has gone now. She has started looking fresh. We attend to her every day. She is fed through the straw in her mouth.”
A nurse, who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, said, “No matter how serious the ailment may be, dumping a child at a place or abandoning him/her in a hospital should never be an option.”
Na wa ooo..
It should never ever be an option oh. Some women tho’ the mind they have ehn scares me.
Message.. Oh Lord
May God come to this little girl’s help. it is well.
Things pple can do.
Lord have mercy this is heartless
Lord have mercy this is heartless. This is so unfair
God forbid !wic
God forbid! wicked pple hating their own blood, thats african mentality for you. meanwhile I have read about a woman who adopted few weeks old baby who had this same ailment & is showing her love
Hod
Poor child. D mother must hav bin frustrated. Mayb der ws no father too.
Lord send her help from above and prove everyone wrong, amen.
In as much as caring 4 her could be very stressfull,where is d place of love?
They shouldn’t have given up cos God still do miracle
Poor child
What some are prayinf for
Poor child…. Some pple are heartless!!
They are both heartless. Thank God the hospital is trying their best and I hope she survives it and get a adopted
Dnt even knw wat to say, but all i Can say is for God to heal dis Lil child…!
I don’t know why people have sold their conscience to devil. This is wickedness in the highest order.
Dis is no fault of hers.Why abandone her in such condition.I pray dat God in His infinite mercy will heal dat child completely in Jesus name Amen
Poor girl
Frustration Caused It
I knw Cp child is nt easy to manage bt abandoning d child is nt an option biko what wil they tell their God
hmmmn never an option