The Badagry General Hospital has said
the newborn twins whose corpses were found in a canal in the Ajangbadi
area of Lagos State, are not deposited in its mortuary.
A top official of the hospital, who did not want his name in print due to civil service rule, told PUNCH Metro that a search of the hospital’s mortuary revealed that there was no record of the dead babies.
Our correspondent had reported on
Tuesday that a set of twin boys were abandoned on Friday at the canal
and residents trooped to the scene to take snapshots of them.
Policemen from the Ilemba Hausa
division were said to have been alerted to the scene. They later removed
the bodies after alerting the officials of the State Environmental
Health Monitoring Unit and those of the local government council.
The police said the bodies were
deposited at the Badagry General Hospital’s morgue pending when an
autopsy would be performed to ascertain what killed them.
But the hospital said it did not have any such record.
The official said, “I have personally
gone to the mortuary to check and there was nothing like that. It is
possible they were taken to the Mainland Hospital mortuary, but not
Badagry.”
A police source at the Ilemba Hausa division said the matter was already with the state health agencies.
“We handed over the case to SEHMU after we recovered the corpses, so they should know where the bodies are,” he said.
The Public Relations Officer of the
Lagos State Ministry of Health, Mrs. Salako Adeola, could not be reached
for comment as of press time.
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