Coping with the loss of a newborn baby is unbearably hard, however, there was pandemonium at the Ondo State Specialists Hospital in Akure, Ondo state capital, over the missing corpse of a dead baby in the morgue of the hospital.

It was gathered that the newborn baby and his mother were brought dead to the hospital from the police hospital, Akure and their remains were deposited at the mortuary of the government-owned hospital on Wednesday.

A family source explained that the family of the deceased were surprised to meet only the remains of the mother on Saturday when they came for the mother and her baby but the deceased baby was missing.

The source said, ” When the family of the deceased got to the hospital mortuary today ( Saturday), to collect the remains of the dead, they only saw the body of the mother and the placenta but they could not find the baby. The mortuary attendants could not explain how it happened. ”

He added that the family members of the deceased almost caused crisis in the hospital premises following the incident, but the family of the deceased reported the matter at the police station.

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Source: Tribune