Boy, 11, abandoned in Igbobi Orthopaedic Hospital
By Chioma Obinna LAGOS — An 11-year-old boy, Master Valentine Chukwu, has been reportedly abandoned by his parents at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi, Lagos. Available information from the hospital management showed that the boy was 10 years when he was taken to the hospital for pyomysitisis with residual ulcer on his left leg on December 27, 2012, but was admitted on December 31, 2012 at the Children’s Ward of the hospital. [caption id="attachment_411997" align="alignleft" width="210"] Valentine Chukwu[/caption] A statement on behalf of the Medical Director by the Protocol Officer of the hospital, Mr. Adewumni Adetoba, said the child, who claimed to have attended Afad Primary School, Ojota, Lagos was brought to the hospital by his mother, Mrs. Jessica Chukwu, who was pregnant then. Further investigation by the hospital revealed that Mrs. Chukwu had since given birth to a baby girl named Blessing but refused to come for her son. Adetoba claimed t...