NAIJA NEWS
Security personnel have rescued five pregnant girls during a raid on a baby factory at Umunya in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State.
Naija News reports that the Anambra State Ministry of Health and the state’s security services worked together to carry out the rescue operations.
The baby factory was found to be a base for child trafficking even though it was operating as a hospital, according to information provided to journalists on Wednesday by the state’s Health Commissioner Afam Obidike.
He identified the facility as ‘Mother and Child Hospital and Maternity located on a road along the Tansian University, Umunya.
He said, “We found that some hospitals that are not registered are operating in the state. We have created data that will capture the hospitals in the state so that people will be able to have quality, good healthcare.
“Unfortunately, in one of the hospitals that we came for inspection, we found out that in our data system, they were not registered. We came here to verify and look at what is happening.”
He added that the facility was not registered with the government of the state of Anambra and that seven of the on-duty nurses fled.
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