By Politico staff writer
The Regional criminal investigation department of the Police in Bo is investigating five nurses and a security guard that were on duty at the Bo Government Hospital when a child went missing.
Police Media and Public Relations Officer, Southern Region Inspector Mohamed Bobson Senu told Politico that on Sunday 11th April, 2021 they got a call from a nurse reporting the disappearance of a child at the hospital.
Senu said that the nurse had told the police that a heavily pregnant woman Mariama Gbondo from Tikonko chiefdom Bo district came to the hospital to deliver and underwent operation during labour. She got twins a boy and a girl but that at around 6:30 pm, the girl child was discovered missing.
He added that in the course of their investigations, they learned that a woman going by the name Amie was at the hospital at the time pretending to Mariama and her mother to be a nurse while also also at the same time posing to the nurses as someone that was helping the woman. He said upon the return of Mariama and her mother went to the bathroom but on their return the baby girl could not be found.
The officer said: “Investigating is a process; it will not start today and end tomorrow. We're calling on the general public to bring forward someone who in their community and was not pregnant but now has a baby".
The distraught Mariama was said to be at the hospital as she was yet be discharged.
Politico could not reach the hospital management at the time of going to press to get their side of the story.
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