Mrs Mbidom
Imagine how a woman will feel after passing through the pangs of a nine-month pregnancy including the pains of a successful caesarean section only to lose her baby nine days later to gunmen! She will be traumatized. Or don't you think so?
This is the present fate of two women namely Ifeoma Mbidom and Ifeyinwa Udoyibo. The two women who hail from Amaifeke Community in Orlu LGA and Akatta in Oru-East LGA of Imo State are currently ruing over the loss of their babies. They did not lose the babies to the grim riper, death but to hoodlums who stormed the hospital where they gave birth to the babies.
According to fair-skinned Mrs Mbidom who visited Nigeria Newspoint Monday in the company of her 36-year-old husband, Mr.Ifeanyi Mbidom, on noticing she was bleeding, she had to contact a mid-wife, simply known as Angelina of Ange Maternity in Okporo Community. It was the mid-wife, she said, that took her to Dr. Anthony Irobi.
Mrs Mbidom disclosed that Dr. Irobi who resides in Amaifeke community but owns and runs the Seat of Life Hospital in Akuma, Oru East LGA thereafter took drove her to the hospital on the fateful day.
She added that a caesarean section was performed on her and she was delivered of a baby girl on November 15.
Her story is similar to that of Mrs Ifeyinwa Udoyibo. According to Ifeyinwa's 26year-old husband, Mr. Obinna Udoyibo, his wife was referred to the Seat of Life Hospital, Akuma by the mid-wife of Joe Nwanchi Maternity, Akatta Community.
At the hospital, he said she gave birth to a baby boy through caesarean section. The boy was also stolen by the hoodlums same day Mrs. Mbidom's baby girl was snatched from the hospital. Mrs Mbidom had gone to the hospital dispensary to collect drugs and left her child in its cot when the urchins came calling.
They disclosed that the armed miscreants numbering five stormed the hospital in the night of November 23, seized and disappeared with the tots. Till date, nobody has seen the toddlers neither have the malefactors made any contact with the families. The police have also not made any arrest except detaining Dr. Irobi and two nurses as they went to the police station to report the incident.
Mr Mbidom and Udoyibo are weeping and gnashing their teeth. Their wives and family members are not left out. Their communities are alarmed at the development.
Mbidom, a wood sawer prayed God to intervene in the matter. He also appealed to whoever seized his baby girl to return her to him. Incidentally, the tots are the first children of the couples. His wife, Ifeoma said the pains of pregnancy and caesarean section would be assuaged when she recovers her child. Udoyibo, a petty trader pleaded with the state government to come to his aid by recovering his boy.
Nigeria Newspoint gathered that Dr. Irobi reported the matter at the police station in Omuma. He was arrested alongside his two nurses and transferred to the headquarters of the state police command where they are currently being detained.
When contacted yesterday on telephone, one Uwaoma who claimed to be Dr. Irobi's younger brother confirmed the story. He also confirmed that his brother was still in detention.
Mr. Samuel Oodee, the new police public relations officer in the state was also contacted on telephone last night and he said he would need time to get in touch with the Divisional Police Officer in Omuma to get the facts of the matter
culled from Newspoint
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