This Baby Survived The Bomb Blast In Abuja

 

GOODNESS”, many may have exclaimed on seeing the baby girl among the victims of Monday’s Abuja motor park suicide bombing in which about 150 people died. The government said 72 people died.

For baby Goodness, the trauma seems to be over. Her eye swollen, she was – in her innocence- playing yesterday with a package of Chloramphenicol —an eye infection ointment — which she put on her ear, mimicking a person making a call on a mobile.

Doctors at the Asokoro District Hospital said Goodness “is okay”.

The baby, whose right eye is swollen, is receiving treatment at the Paediatrics ward where a relative, simply identified as Aunty Mary, is looking after her.

Her mother, whose name was not disclosed, is at the Wuse General Hospital receiving treatment for a fracture.

A doctor said: “She is in a stable condition. The swollen eye is getting better. Baby Goodness is responding well to treatment and she will be discharged when the hospital certifies that she is fine.

”Family photographs have been seen and that confirms that the man who came to claim her is truly her father.”

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Bala Mohammed, who described the blast as “cruel” and “inhuman”, attributed baby Goodness’ survival to an act of God

He said: “The baby is here and the mother is in Wuse Hospital and we are taking steps to reunite the baby with her mother, who is also stable and doing well.

“Her aunty is taking care of her and you can see she is a charming baby. The baby epitomises the callousness of this dastardly act because if you lose such a charming baby, you will know what it feels like. This is a cruel and an inhuman act.

“You can imagine what the baby is going through because she is separated from her mother, temporarily; talk more of being separated permanently. You can see how God does His things.

“It is an act of God because both the mother and baby were separated by the blast but they are united in hospitals because God said they are going to live and by the grace of God, they will live.”