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Lagos nurse, Samson Adeleke, who carried out a surgery that terminated the lives of a pregnant woman, Mrs Kemi Alabi and her unborn baby has been charged with murder and remanded in Kirikiri Minimum Prison by an Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court.
Lagos nurse, Samson Adeleke, who carried out a surgery that terminated the lives of a pregnant woman, Mrs Kemi Alabi and her unborn baby has been charged with murder and remanded in Kirikiri Minimum Prison by an Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court.
Daily Sun had last week exclusively reported how Adeleke, who is the Director of Convenant-Love Nursing Home, Ayobo, Lagos, experimented surgical operation on Mrs. Alabi in a bid to deliver her of her baby. His attempt, however, ended in tragedy as the woman and her unborn baby died.
While Adeleke faces murder charges, his professional colleagues have disowned him for acting "beyond his limit."
A source at the Panti, Yaba office of the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told Daily Sun "He (Adeleke) has been charged to court at Ebute-Metta and he is being remanded at Kirikiri Minimum Prison."
Adeleke's prosecution is coming at a time, nurses have disowned him. In a communiqué issued at the end of the State Executive Council meeting last Wednesday, the Nigeria Private Nurses and Midwives Association (NPNMA) condemned what it called, "the unprofessional practice of the "nurse."
The association dissociated itself from the embattled nurse and also advised the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) to take an appropriate disciplinary action against him.
The four-point communiqué, which was jointly signed by the chairman, Comrade Akin Ojo and the Secretary, Comrade Sola Oyebode, pledged to support every effort aimed at eradicating quackery in the nursing and medical professions.
Meanwhile, Adeleke's hospital has been closed down by government.
The chairman of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Government Area, Prince Bisi Yusuf, ordered that the place be sealed off.
According to Yusuff, the nursing home would be closed indefinitely.
"Yes, I ordered the closure of the place. This is a warning signal to others that operate illegal hospitals and use same to send people to their untimely grave," he said,
He debunked allegation that skeletal services were still going on in the nursing home, insisting: "It is impossible! You can go there yourself and check. Unless he comes up tomorrow to show us that he has qualified as a doctor. There is no way skeletal services would be going on there even when the director of the Nursing Home, Mr. Samson Adeleke is still being held by the police."
Yusuf explained that the local government is building health care centres in all the five wards in the local government area adding that most of the people who would have patronized illegal hospitals now have alternative.
He identified poverty as one of the reasons for patronizing quack doctors, but noted that the cost of patronizing quack was higher than what would have been used to receive adequate care from government hospitals.