Pathological desire to have children
and deliberate efforts by women to swindle money and other valuables from their
husbands make some women to falsely claim they are pregnant, a doctor says. Dr
Hussein Adamu of Ummah Hospital, Jalingo, spoke in reaction to a claim by a
woman that she lost her pregnancy to kidnappers who removed her foetus.
The woman, Nafisa Isa, in Jalingo on
Tuesday claimed that three unidentified persons abducted her near her residence
at Anguwan Baraya area of the town. “ I went out to do some shopping around 9
o’clock in the morning when two men and a woman hypnotised and dragged me into
their already packed vehicle and drove off.
“ When I woke up, the only thing I
could remember was that they gave me an injection which, apparently, allowed
them to remove my foetus and placenta before fleeing. “ A woman who took me to
Ummah Hospital said she saw me loitering near Mallum, on the outskirts of
Jalingo, in the pool of my blood,” she told newsmen. T
he story elicited shock and sympathy
from the residents, including community and religious leaders, who urged the police
to investigate the matter. But Adamu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that
the entire scenario was a case of “phantom pregnancy”. He explained that
medical tests conducted by the hospital revealed that Nafisa was not pregnant
although she had lied to her husband that she was carrying his baby for almost
nine months.
“ When we conducted Pregnancy Tests
on her the result was negative. “Her vagina was dry and closed; no breast
discharge and scan result showed no retained products (lochia) in her uterus. “
Normally, even if a woman is induced, it will take her between nine and 12
hours before she delivers; it cannot be within four hours as she claimed in the
story,
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