The Edo State Police Command has
apprehended the Managing Director of Ofure Royal Medical Centre located,
Benin City Dr. Omokhomion Kingsley for allegedly conducting abortion at
the medical centre.
The Doctor was arrested by Zonal Criminal Investigation Bureau, Zone 5 officers after a complaint was made that a woman’s pregnancy was terminated at the centre.
The police were said to have set up an operation where a patient disguised as a pregnant woman demanded to abort her pregnancy.
Immediately the doctor and his nurses attempted to terminate the pregnancy, the police swooped in to arrest the culprits.
The police during the raid recovered a lifeless foetus and hospital equipment suspected to be abortion apparatus.
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the zone, Mr. Musa Daura revealed that a woman who earlier went for an Abortion at the clinic is currently battling for her dear life at another hospital.
The police told reporters: “All of them were arrested because they were involved in the act and they are telling us their involvement in the act.
“As I am talking to you, the person involved is still laying critically in a hospital”.
In Nigeria abortions are legally restricted, permitted only to save the life of the mother. But at least 760,000 abortions happen every year, its said that up to 34000 women die annually from unsafe abortions.
The Doctor was arrested by Zonal Criminal Investigation Bureau, Zone 5 officers after a complaint was made that a woman’s pregnancy was terminated at the centre.
The police were said to have set up an operation where a patient disguised as a pregnant woman demanded to abort her pregnancy.
Immediately the doctor and his nurses attempted to terminate the pregnancy, the police swooped in to arrest the culprits.
The police during the raid recovered a lifeless foetus and hospital equipment suspected to be abortion apparatus.
The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the zone, Mr. Musa Daura revealed that a woman who earlier went for an Abortion at the clinic is currently battling for her dear life at another hospital.
The police told reporters: “All of them were arrested because they were involved in the act and they are telling us their involvement in the act.
“As I am talking to you, the person involved is still laying critically in a hospital”.
In Nigeria abortions are legally restricted, permitted only to save the life of the mother. But at least 760,000 abortions happen every year, its said that up to 34000 women die annually from unsafe abortions.
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