The baby had haemorrhage

When i was still a school girl, my mother had a grocery shop just by the side a busy main road. After school hours, instead of going home, i'd rather stay at mummy's shop since it was much closer to the school than our home. I and my siblings would eat out lunch at the shop and remain there till around 7am when we all shall return home after mom had closed her business for the day. We would also do our homework, wash our uniforms and socks at the shop before going back to school the next day.

One day, I returned to the shop after school hours and was sitting on the customers seat outside, when an accident occurred in front of my me.

A lorry had collided with a motorcycle carrying a female passenger with a baby stripped to her back. No need to mention that the driver of the lorry was unhurt, but the three occupants of the bike were thrown over the hard road as soon as the bike tumbled due to the resulting collision .

The woman and the rider sustained a few bruises here and there. Unfortunately, the child's head had hit the tarred road since he was still strapped to his mother's back when she had fallen of the bike.

Passers-by who witness the accident hurriedly rushed to the scene to render all the help they could to the victims

The baby who was just a year old was obviously still alive as his eyes were wide open, but he refused to cry. Indeed this was strange.

My mom pressed, squeezed, pinched and tapped the child repeatedly but he didn't make any sound neither did he react. He kept staring blankly.

Both mother and child were rushed to the nearest hospital and the mother's bruises were treated promptly. But the doctor announced that the child situation was critical. He had sustained a serious trauma to the head which had resulted to an internal bleeding or haemorrhage. The little child was transferred to the state's hospital were he was admitted into the I.C.U

From what I heard, the child spent over two months at the hospital where he undergone major surgery. His parents had spent a lot of money to ensure his recovery but all to no avail.

After sometime, people began to pray for a miracle to happen as the poor child was just suffering. Some even wished that he should just die. You wouldn't blame them for feeling this way would you? They were just being logical. Alot have been spent already and the doctors gave very little hope of his improvement. So they thought it better for the child to go if he couldn't be healed.

At last, the child didn't survival and died before a third surgery. Not after his parents had passed through a lot of grief and emotional stress.

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