By Adama Makasuba
Hospital officials were left scrambling for options after a woman gave birth to a baby boy and then abandoning it.
Haddy Njie allegedly gave birth to a baby boy at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital on 1 January 2020 but abandoned it and disappeared. Her baby is third on the list of the first babies of the year, after arriving at 6:35am.
Mariama Cham, a midwife, told The Fatu Network: “The third baby is an abondoned baby which was delivered off at 6:35 am. When I was wiping the baby, the mother said that she wanted to take bath.
“So I saw her the bathroom. She went to the bathroom but by the time I finished wiping the baby, then I called, ‘Haddy Njie, Haddy Njie, Haddy Njie’ is nowhere to be seen. So that’s how the mother just went.”
“We didn’t see her and we went to the security and the securities said that no one passed through the gate.”
According to the midwife, the lady didn’t come to the hospital with any family member neither did she come with an anti-natal card.
“She came with nothing, she only came with her three-quarter [pants],” she said.
“When I asked her to provide a contact of her family for communication she replied she couldn’t remember any contact to her family.”
