BIZZARE: ROBBERS RAID LABOUR ROOM

 

Armed robbers, in the wee hours of yesterday raided the labour room and two other departments in Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH’s) old site in Aba, dispossessing women in labour, patients and staffers of their personal belongings including cash, handsets and jewelries.

The robbers, numbering about five were said to have gained entry into the hospital’s premises at about 2am through the fence bordering the teaching hospital with a hotel located behind the health institution. On gaining entry, they made straight to the Central Delivery Unit (CDU), where they forced pregnant women, who were inside the labour room and others waiting in the unit to be delivered of their babies, to lie face down .

One of the victims of the incident, Daily Sun gathered was delivered of twins few moments after the robbers left. After dispossessing the women at the CDU of their valuables, the robbers made for to the Post Natal Ward (PNW), where they equally ordered nursing mothers, some of who were delivered of their babies few hours back, to lie face down before carting away their belongings.

However, the operation at the PNW was dramatic. It was gathered that when the robbers entered the ward, they were said to have pretended as pastors, who had come to help the women in prayers and were indeed leading the unsuspecting staff and patients in prayers, when all of a sudden, they brought out their guns and ordered their victims to lie down and bring out all they had on them, which the robbers made away with.
A female victim of the robbery incident, who was on admission in one of the wards, narrated her experience to Daily Sun: “At the early hours of that day, at about 2 am, I saw someone peeping through the door to our ward.

“Since there was no light to see his face clearly, I pointed my touch light towards his direction and he warned me seriously. At the initial stage, I thought he was one of the security men attached to the hospital and I told him I was sorry for flashing my touch light at him.

“Within seconds, he forcefully entered the ward with three others well armed and forced everybody including those in the labour room to lie face down and then they collected all we had, including N10, 000 from a man whose wife was to be operated upon that morning before they left. He had wanted to pay the money as deposit for his wife’s operation.”
Daily Sun gathered that despite the fact that ABSUTH’s old site was within a shouting distance from the headquarters of the Aba Area Command of the Nigeria Police, this was not the first time armed robbers would be raiding the hospital.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Joe Onwuka confirmed the robbery incident but failed to make further comments.

The area commander, Rabiu Dayi was said to be away from the state on official duty, but a senior police officer, who spoke on anonymity said police had not received any report on the incident.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Sun

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