Ononye VC wrote in from Onitsha;
And in order to excrete urine and feces,the doctors had to perforate the baby’s abdomen to eliminate waste.
The pathetic situation left the parents
of the baby,Mr and Mrs Charles Ibeh whose only source of livelihood is
petty trading crumbled and had to stop three of their other children
from going to school while living with the agony of the strange medical
condition.
The harrowing story started when when
the mother of the ill fated baby,Mrs Uchenna Ibeh was recently delivered
of the baby in a private hospital in Onitsha through operation and it
was discovered that the baby was utterly deformed with the entire
intestine on the surface of the abdomen while the anus and genitals were
nowhere to be found.
They were subsequently referred to the
Teaching Hospital,Nnewi where the doctors had to reposition the baby’s
intestines and created (perforated) an opening from where urine and
feces are eliminated.
Following the high cost of surgery and other treatments including X-ray and Scan which the couple could not afford,they were reportedly detained for days in the hospital such that when it became obvious to the hospital authorities that they were indigent and helpless,they decided to discharge them.
Following the high cost of surgery and other treatments including X-ray and Scan which the couple could not afford,they were reportedly detained for days in the hospital such that when it became obvious to the hospital authorities that they were indigent and helpless,they decided to discharge them.
The couple expressed gratitude to the
hospital management for releasing but were sad that they (the hospital
management) refused to give them official medical record of their baby
to enable them solicit help from kind spirited people and institutions
in order to show proof of their plight.
According to them,all efforts to get the hospital authorities to do something failed and that they had no other choice than to go home with the baby.
According to them,all efforts to get the hospital authorities to do something failed and that they had no other choice than to go home with the baby.
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