Nurse Disconnects Oxygen Supply To 2-Day Old Baby To Enforce NLC Strike In Kaduna-Health Commissioner

Kaduna State government has claimed that some nurses at Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital in Kaduna disconnected oxygen supply to a two-day old baby in an incubator in a bid to join the strike action of the Nigerian Labour Congress.

Amina Baloni, the state commissioner for health who appeared on NTA network news on Tuesday, disclosed that the ministry got report that a nurse disconnected oxygen supply to the baby and discharged the mother from the hospital.

Baloni said her ministry has been trying to trace the family to ensure the baby does not die.

In an earlier statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Communications to the governor, Muyiwa Adekeye, on Tuesday, the State Government noted that nurses were implicated in the forceful discharge of patients in many health facilities.

“Reports from Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital disclosed that some identified nurses disconnected the oxygen supply of a two-day old baby in an incubator on Monday, 17th May 2021.

“The names of the three nurses from the Special Baby Care Unit who were involved in this despicable act have been forwarded to the Ministry of Justice to initiate prosecution for attempted murder or murder in the event we lose the baby,” it reads.