‘Doctor’ steals baby in Benguet General hospital

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police are still looking for a woman who pretended to be a doctor and stole a baby here at the Benguet General Hospital Tuesday around 4:15 p.m.

The woman reportedly identified her as Dr. Ramos and told the baby’s father she would check the baby but  ran away with the toddler named John Miller Vicente.

According to the father Jose Antonio Vicente Jr, 41, resident of Ambassador, Tublay, Benguet, the unidentified female went to the charity ward and identified herself as Dr. Ramos.

The suspect said she would weigh the baby, carried out the toddler but did not come back.

CCTV footages were taken from the hospital for investigation.

Following this, police and BeGH hospital authorities urged mothers who just gave birth to be careful in entrusting their babies to people they didn’t know or the incident could happen again.

At the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, around 7 km away from here, cases of babies being snatched  some years back forced hospital authorities to heighten security.