Abuja bombing: 10-month-old baby reunites with injured mother

One of the very few happy moments in connection with Monday’s bomb attack at the Nyanya bus station happened yesterday, as a 10-month-old baby is set to be reunited with her injured mother, who was admitted at the Wuse General Hospital.
Baby Goodness had spent the whole of Monday at Asokoro Hospital while her mother, Gloria Adams, who suffered severe injuries, was later discovered in the Intensive Care Unit at Wuse General Hospital and has since been visited by family members.
She was among 216 people now confirmed injured in the blast. Luckily, doctors said the 10-month-old did not sustain any injury in the blast, apart from a slight swelling over one eye, currently is being monitored.
Mrs Adams said: “I cannot remember how I got here. I only saw myself on the ground, turning and turning. Then someone came and removed the baby.
“I’m feeling better. Many have died, but I am alive. I give glory to God.”
Plans were already underway to transfer the baby to Wuse Hospital  to join her mother.
Meanwhile, the official number of the dead following the attack, has risen from 71 to 75, while the number of injured persons has been put at 216 even as pathologists and forensic specialists have began work to identify dismembered bodies.
Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, who made this known after he visited the bomb blast victims at various hospitals in the FCT yesterday, said there were no plans by the Federal Government to conduct a mass burial for the dead.
Chukwu said pathologists were presently meeting and collaborating with their forensic colleagues from the West African Forensic Association in order to assist in having savaged bodies identified.
He insisted that no victim would be buried in a mass grave, rather, dismembered bodies would be identified and buried individually and decently.
There have been worries over how the federal government will conduct the burial of the dead as bodies were burnt and disfigured, also body parts that littered the blast scene were packed into body bags on the premises of hospitals.
Speaking the official figures of the number of the dead, he said that three persons lost their lives during the night at Wuse and Maitama hospitals from severe head injury bringing the figures to 75.
On the number of injured persons, the minister said that the provisional figures given on Monday, may have been exaggerated due to double counting or some persons simply left after being treated because their wounds were not severe.
He stated that those evacuated to the hospitals was 216 and that they were receiving treatment at different hospitals in the FCT.
He commended the doctors and the management of the Wuse, Asokoro, Maitama, National Hospital, Federal staff hospital Jabi, Nyanya and all other hospitals for giving their best in caring for those injured and those who died during the attack.
On the issues of hospitals being overwhelmed by the number of causalities, the minister said there was need to increase the capacities of hospital to receive such victims especially with the recent trend of events in the country.