Nigerian mother chose to let her baby die
A Nigerian doctor has taken to Twitter to share a quite sad and desponding story of an overly religious mother who let her fanaticism claim the life of her child.
According to the doctor, the mother acting out of religious reasons chose to let her son die rather than accept a blood transfusion that would have saved him.
The doctor wrote on Twitter:
“Madam your baby needs to undergo an urgent surgery and he’ll need blood transfusion too.
He’s anaemic.”Mum moves over to baby’s bed “Nwam, ngwanu, you will die na. God said we shouldn’t take blood.” We begged. They refused. He was 2 wks old. I cried. Why? Faith or murder?
I cried Doc, when they signed against and took him away. He died in the other ‘Preferred’ hospital where they took him.
I keep asking what is the boundary. Where can we step in and say NO, we’ll do this letter take legal actions or something. I’m tired of this really.
