The Gombe State Police Command has debunked the allegation going round that an eye of a dead woman who was kept in the Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe was removed by unknown persons.
WikkiTimes learnt that irate youths have on Tuesday barricaded the entrance of the hospital protesting the alleged removal of the eye from a deceased body at the hospital Mortuary before preparing for her funeral rites.
However, the Gombe Police Command in a statement by Mahid Muazu Abubakar, said the allegations were unfounded as an autopsy revealed that all the deceased eyes were intact.
According to the statement, a relative of the deceased reported to the police that as they recovered the deceased’s body from the mortuary after it was kept for four days, they noticed blood coming out from one of her eyes and they suspect that it was removed in the morgue.
” On Tuesday, 26th September 2023, one Bilyaminu Dogara Campbell, male, of Tumfure quarters Gombe, went to the Gombe Divisional Police Headquarters and reported that his aunt, Halima Ibrahim, aged 61 years, who was sick, died while receiving treatment at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe on Friday, 22th September 2023 and her corpse was deposited at the said hospital mortuary for preservation”.
” That, on Tuesday, 26th September 2023, the deceased relations went to prepare the corpse for burial, and they discovered that blood was coming out from the deceased left eye, which raised suspicion that the eye might have been removed at the hospital’s mortuary.
” On receipt of the report, the Commissioner of Police CP Oqua Etim directed the Divisional Police Officer to conduct discreet investigations in order to ascertain circumstances surrounding the incident”, partly read the statement
Mahid added that police operatives were deployed at the hospital’s gate in order to protect the facility and prevent breach of public peace from the rampaging youths who besieged the hospital to protest.
According to him, an autopsy was carried out by the hospital management in front of the deceased’s relatives and the result showed that her eyes were intact.
” Consequently, the management of the hospital appealed to the aggrieved persons for calm and conducted an autopsy on the deceased body in the presence of her relations, and the result shows that all two eyes were intact. This has doused the tension, and the crowd who gathered outside the hospital’s gate dispersed peacefully, having noticed that the allegations were baseless”, he added.
The statement further said the command is investigating the matter to unravel the perpetrators of the false alarm in order to bring them to book.
