TRAGEDY: Prisoner Who Delivered Twins Dies of Complications
The prison officials celebrating the twins baby belonging to the late inmate
By Funmilola Aworele – April 25, 2019
A Calabar prison inmate who delivered twins at the General Hospital on April 17 has died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) from post-natal complications.
A spokesperson for the Calabar prison command, ASP Effanga Etim, made this known in a statement sent. He revealed that the nursing mother died two days after delivery due to protracted complications despite the concerted efforts by the prison authority and the Cross River state government.
The Prison Public Relations Officer said with the intervention of the Cross-River Commissioner for Health and the prison authorities to provide the funds needed for the caesarean section, the inmate was delivered of twins, a boy and a girl named Ben and Linda Ayade.
She delivered twins at the general hospital Calabar and was referred to the teaching hospital following birth complications.
It would be recall that, the deceased prisoner (name withheld) was remanded on alleged child theft by a high court in Calabar on Nov. 5, 2018, but with six-month-old pregnancy. It was not clear as at Press time whether she was duly married before her apprehension, hence the naming of the twins after the incumbent Governor Ayade.
The prison authority assured the public that the health and welfare of prisoners remain its top priority.
