Outrage as UCH Ibadan rejects sick newborn baby over mother’s refusal to remove her veil (Video)
The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan has allegedly rejected a sick newborn baby over the mother’s refusal to remove her veil. It was gathered that the 4-day-old baby brought in around 11:30 pm on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, was refused treatment at the emergency children’s ward of the hospital. The baby’s father, Sobur Opeyemi Rafiu, who gave the details of the ordeal on his Facebook handle, said he was made to pay some bills before those attending to them informed his wife that she could not be allowed access to the ward with her veil. He said; “I don’t really know how to put this but I can’t let it go. They just rejected my 4 days old baby this night around 11:30pm at the emergency children ward of University College Hospital, Ibadan-UCH just because his mother and our neighbour who followed us there put on a veil. “The most painful part is that they didn’t tell us initially until after I paid some bills at universal laboratory which is ₦15,800 and I was told to come and fi