Police operatives in Ondo State have arrested two health workers and a security guard over the disappearance of a new born baby’s placenta.
The suspects reportedly claimed that a dog entered the health centre and eat the placenta.
The Ondo State Police Command’s spokesperson, Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, who spoke with the newsmen on Tuesday in Akure, said the two health workers, a nurse and her assistant person alongside the security guard, are staff of the Comprehensive Health Centre, Emure-IIe, Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
She explained the suspects were picked up by the police after the 23-year old father of the newborn baby, Tunde Ijanusi, reported the case at Emure-Ile Police Division H.
She further explained that a 19-year old nursing mother gave birth to a baby girl on June 15 at the health centre and when the father of the baby asked for the placenta, the nurse and her assistant could not produce it.
She said: “So, it is a case of negligence of duty and the nurse , health assistant and security were invited by the police and currently the case is being handled at the Emure-Ile division.
“The father said that he was worried after the health workers who took the delivery failed to give him the placenta of his newborn baby in line with tradition.”
Also speaking with journalists, the paternal grandmother of the baby, Mrs. Funmilayo Ijanusi, said family would not accept the health facility’s claim a dog entered and eat the placenta.
She said that the personnel of the health center had attempted to persuade the family to let go of the matter, offering to discharge the mother of the baby without collecting any money.
