10-Month-Old Baby, Who Survive Reunites With ‘Missing’ Mother in Hospital

A 10-month-old baby simply identified as Goodness, who was rescued from the scene of the Monday bomb blast in Nyanya near Abuja,  has been reunited with her mother in hospital.

Goodness was separated from her mother, Gloria Adams, who was presumed dead in the explosion. Before she was taken from the Asokoro Hospital to the Wuse General Hospital where her mother is receiving treatment in  the Intensive Care Unit, Goodness spent Tuesday morning sleeping.

Medical workers and her aunt, Maria Dominic, looked after the little baby who had only a slight swelling close to one of her eyes. Her mother suffered severe injuries and is one of the two left in the Wuse General Hospital’s ICU after one other victim died.

Gloria, according to a hospital source  said she was carrying Goodness on her back when the blast occurred.

The hospital source quoted her as saying, “I cannot remember how I got here.  I only saw myself on the ground, turning and turning. Then someone came and removed my baby from my back.”

The source said Gloria was very happy to see her baby alive.

“I’m feeling better. Many have died; but I am alive. I give glory to God, for saving me and my little baby,” she told the hospital workers.

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