By Olumide T. Agunbiade
Four Nigerian female police officers
did not let the location, the crowd and no medical experience get in the way of
stepping in to help deliver a woman's baby at Oshodi bus stop yesterday.
The woman whose
identity was unknown was about to board a commercial bus going to Ikotun Egbe
around 3pm, when she suddenly went into labour."She was
about to climb the bus, and I noticed
that she was clearly in distress, we quickly assisted her to the side of the
bus stop and alerted the female police officers on duty to who assisted us to
move her into the bus shelter ," said one of the passengers.
The Policemen saw that the
woman's water had broken and immediately sprung into action by getting clothes
from the people living around the area. The woman, later identified as Anike
Alabi, was 38 weeks pregnant.
"I have no medical training,
but I'm a mom," said one of the Police officers, ‘the baby is a girl and she is very beautiful
and was born without contractions or screaming. She just fell into her mother’s
pants."
The kind officers gave useful
instructions, which the mother followed scrupulously as the passengers,
traders, neighbours and others who had been with the pregnant woman waited
patiently.
"We used a scarf to wipe
off the baby’s nose and mouth, and then we kept the baby warm with a wrapper
and then tied a shoelace around the umbilical cord about six inches from the
baby, but not to cut it,’ said one of the passengers.
After the joyful delivery, paramedics
arrived and took the mother and child to the hospital.
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