Awaiting Trial inmate in Prison
Awaiting Trial inmate in Prison
Prison Inmate Died after Delivering Twins at Calabar
Hospital
The Nigerian Prisons Service, Cross-Rivers Command, has received
with dismay media reports insinuating that an Awaiting Trial Female
(ATF) inmate of Calabar Prison was delivered of twins inside the
prison facility.
The report is not true as the said inmate was remanded by a High
Court in Calabar on 5th November, 2018 with six (6) month-old
pregnancy for the offence of child stealing. While in prison, she
had been under regular ante-natal care at the General Hospital,
Calabar. On the 17th
of April, 2019 by 1:30pm when her labour began, she was admitted in
the same hospital and a caesarean section was carried out on
her.
With the intervention of the Cross River state Commissioner of
Health, and the efforts of the Prison authority to provide the
funds needed for the caesarean section, the said inmate was
delivered of twins: a boy and a girl. However, due to complications
arising from the
caesarean section, she was referred to the University of Calabar
Teaching Hospital (UCTH) for further management, where she died on
19th April, 2019.
The command wishes to state emphatically that for the past four
(4) years, there has not been any delivery in the Calabar prison
infirmary. Albeit, the infirmary is well equipped to handle health
emergencies that may arise with nine (9) medical experts comprising
of a medical doctor, registered nurses/midwives and community
health workers, as well as back-up medical personnel stationed in
the State Prison Headquarters, any emergency beyond the infirmary
is referred to government hospitals outside the prison.
The Nigerian Prisons Service, Cross River state command, is
pained over the loss of the said inmate after a combined effort by
the prison authority, the Cross River state government and medical
personnel in the General Hospital, Calabar. I assure the public
that the health and welfare of prisoners remain its top
priority.
ASP Effanga Etim
Public Relations Officer
Cross Rivers state command.
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