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A 50-year-old woman, Isioma Iyele, has disappeared from the Yaba Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, in the Yaba area of Lagos State.gathered that the woman was suffering from dementia when her children decided to take her to the hospital to see a specialist for treatment.

However, another son of the missing woman, Kuthumi, while shedding tears in a video clip posted online, lamented that his brother could not locate their mother after paying for the drugs. “Then, he left my mum at the counter to pay for the drugs. After he paid for the drugs, he went back to the counter and couldn’t find my mum. He started running around the hospital, asking people that were there that he was looking for his mum and nobody paid attention to him.”He added, “They have CCTV there and we asked if we could see the footage to know exactly what happened.

“The doctor gave a prescription to them and both the patient and her son went to the reception at the emergency unit, sat down, and thereafter, the boy went to cost the prescription and also went to pay at the outpatient unit.

 

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