Police in Lagos State have arrested a mother for attempting to kill her sick child, using a poisonous insecticide, “Sniper.”
The police spokesperson in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, on Saturday said that the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, reported the attempt to the police on Friday.
He said the chief security officer at the hospital reported to the police that the mother brought her one-year-and-seven-month-old daughter to the hospital for treatment.
He added that the mother confessed to a doctor at the hospital that she gave the child “Sniper” to drink on Sunday when her convulsion was not abating.
“The mother said she gave the liquid to her child so she could rest from her excessive convulsions.
“Detectives were immediately dispatched to the hospital where they met the baby receiving treatment.
“The mother has been taken in for investigation after the child had received treatment,” Hundeyin said.
‘Sniper’ is a poisonous insecticide that is lethal to living organisms. The term is used in a wide range of scientific fields and industries, where it is often specifically defined. It may also be applied colloquially or figuratively, with a broad sense.
Whether something is considered a poison or not may depend on the amount, the circumstances, and what living things are present. Poisoning could be accidental or deliberate, and if the cause can be identified there may be ways to neutralize the effects or minimize the symptoms.
In biology, a poison is a chemical substance causing death, injury, or harm to organisms or their parts. In medicine, poisons are a kind of toxin that is delivered passively, not actively. In industry the term may be negative, something to be removed to make a thing safe, or positive, an agent to limit unwanted pests. In ecological terms, poisons introduced into the environment can later cause unwanted effects elsewhere, or in other parts of the food chain.
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