Police Arrest Lagos Doctor, As Pregnant Woman, Baby Die

Nigeria police have arrested a medical doctor over the death of a pregnant woman and her baby, along Airport Road Ikeja, Lagos State, Ekohotblog reports.

The life of a pregnant woman may have been saved if the doctor that was to operate on her, was not allegedly held by policemen enforcing the COVID-19 lock-down in the state, the eyewitnesses said.

Ekohotblog gathered that the surgeon was held for about one hour, as entreaties that she was on an emergency call, fell on deaf ears.

After she was released, the doctor reportedly got to the hospital and discovered that both mother and baby were died.

According to reports, the incident happened on Monday, at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, Surulere.

The deceased was identified only as Mistura.

A witness, said the female doctor broke down in tears upon seeing that she could not save the victim and her baby.

He said, “The doctor is a woman. In fact, she was also ill and was placed on a drip at home when she was called for the emergency.

“Because her car was bad, she got a cabman to take her to the hospital. She left her house around past 9pm.

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“Around 10.15pm, they got to the under bridge around Airport Road, where they met the policemen. They had been stopped by other policemen before they got to that spot. But when she showed them her ID card, they allowed her to pass.

“But they got to another check point, those ones refused. After she showed one of them her ID card and said she was on an emergency to see a patient who was between life and death, the policeman ordered the driver to park. He took her ID card and asked her to prove she was on an emergency.

“She went to meet another member of the team and begged him that she needed to leave immediately, and that the life of her patient was at risk. She was in a nightgown; she could not even change when she got the call. But the second policeman shunned her.

“The policeman said she was foolish and she was a prostitute, because a doctor would never dress the way she was dressed. She begged them and explained the circumstances, but they refused to listen and demanded the emergency letter.”

Meanwhile, after keeping the doctor for about one hour, she was released.

Report also had it that it was already late, as the patient had died.

It was learnt that the patient was initially admitted to a private facility, where attempts were made to deliver her of the baby, credit Punch.