Nurse pulls off baby’s hand during delivery in Ikorodu, Lagos

There was confusion in Odogunyan, Ikorodu area of Lagos State after an auxiliary nurse, identified only as Oyekanmi pulled off the hand of a baby while taking delivery.

The police have since arrested the suspect.

It was gathered that the victim’s mother, Adeola, was taken to Oyekanmi’s residence last Saturday when she went into labour.

Oyekanmi, while attempting to force the delivery, was said to have pulled off the baby’s hand.

The baby died when she was rushed to the Ikorodu general hospital, Punch reports.The hospital management then alerted the police on the incident and the suspect was picked up by the police.

The source said, “What happened was that the auxiliary nurse tried to deliver the woman of the baby, during which there was a complication.

“But she continued and in the end, the hand of the baby was pulled off while she tried to force the child out from the mother’s womb.