Nigeria: Baby Born With Sealed Anus in Bauchi


Weekly Trust (Abuja)

24 September 2007
Posted to the web 24 September 2007

Muazu Hardawa
Bauchi

A couple in Bauchi State had been thrown into confusion following the discovery by medical doctors that their two-month-old baby girl, Maryam, was born without anus. The girl showed no sign of deformity until the doctors' shocking discovery.

The incident occurred around the old cemetery in Jahun area of Bauchi State. The baby's mother Malama Aishatu Yau told Weekly Trust how it all happened, and how the parents are battling to see that their baby live a normal life like other human beings.


Aishatu said no one realised Maryam's pathetic condition until 12 days after her birth. Maryam, according to her mother, did not pass out any excreta and was crying endlessly and for all those 12 days.

The parents sought medical attention at a clinic in Bauchi. After diagnosis, they were informed by the doctors that their baby had not been able to empty her bowl because her anus was sealed right from birth.

From the clinic in Bauchi, Aishatu said, they were referred to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Gombe. At the FMC, the doctors told them that their daughter needed an emergency surgery to create a hole at the side of her stomach through which she can temporarily relieve herself.

To get a permanent solution, however, the parents were told that N350, 000 was required on her to open her anus so that she can lead a normal life.

But Aishatu told Weekly Trust that the family has spent all the money they had on the temporary surgery. "The only assistance we received was N20, 000 from Gombe and now we are penniless," she said.

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Aishatu's husband was a former staff of NITEL who was laid off without his benefits paid to him and can barely provide for the family.

The surgeon who performed the temporary Dr. Auwal is a consultant who occasionally visits the FMC Gombe for complicated surgeries such as Maryam's. The time he has given to the family has since elapsed and they have not been able to generate the money.

The family is now in desperate need of financial assistance from the Bauchi State government especially and the general public to enable their daughter lead a normal life.

Thank you dimka!   One less anus to be sodomized on planet earth!  I love your informercials-----------please keep them coming!