UPDATE: Activist, Aisha Yesufu issues apology for tweet about woman who lost triplets at Aminu Kano Teaching hospital

Popular Nigerian activist and convener bring back our girls movement, Aisha Yesufu, has apologised for her tweet about a woman who lost a set of triplets due to lack of incubators at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano.

Yesufu had taken taken to social media to share a story of how a woman lost a set of triplets at the Kano hopsital. She said the incident happened on Sunday, December 30.

According to Yesufu, the woman was seven months pregnant when she went into labour. The doctor had opted for a Caesarian Session (CS) but as they were getting the theatre ready, the woman birthed her babies. She added that the woman watched her baby girls die because there were no incubators available to keep them alive.

See Aisha Yesufu tweets below:

That was not all, Yesufu had also further revealed that her husband’s friend had lost his mother-in-law because the hospital had no oxygen. She said the woman died in the car before they got her to Federal Medical Centre (FMC), in Lagos.

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However, in another reaction, Aisha Yesufu apologised for her earlier tweet. She said though, the woman who had lost her triplet was indeed referred to AKTH, it was the first hospital, Nasarawa Hospital that did not have incubators. She subsequently issued another tweet apologising to the management of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.

Read her tweets below:

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