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I came across the following issue. It was a headline on Zambia News and was also posted on Facebook.
I swapped about 5 000 babies in the 12 years I worked in a maternity ward at UTH, a nurse reportedly admits
The former nurse, who is suffering from cancer, revealed that she has exchanged about 5 000 babies while working at the hospital.
A Zambian nurse, Elizabeth Mwewa, has confessed her sins on her sick bed as she asked God for forgiveness. The nurse, who used to work at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Zambia, confessed that she has exchanged over 5 000 babies during her service.
“I have terminal cancer and I know I will be dying soon. I wish to confess my sins before God and before all the affected people, especially those who were giving birth at UTH during my service. I have found God. I am now born again. I have nothing to hide. In the 12 years I worked in the maternity ward at UTH, I swapped close to 5 000 babies,” The Zambian Observer reports.
Mwewa added that it became a habit and she used to do it for fun. According to her, she carried out the act for a duration of 12 years as she worked at the maternity ward of the hospital. The sick woman explained that she is now born again and has nothing to hide. She also added that she has sinned against God and Zambians and would not want to go to hell for her past sins.
“I know I sinned against God and may he forgive me for that. I am also asking Zambians to forgive me for the evil things I was doing to innocent children. I have caused some faithful couples to divorce after going for DNA tests. It is now that I have realised I was just being used by a demon to do that. I have caused many mothers to breastfeed children who were not theirs biologically. I don’t want to go to hell for that. I am really sorry, I have sinned a lot. Please forgive me.”
According to The Zambian Observer, Mwewa also added that kids born between 1983 to 1995 at the hospital should check themselves, particularly if they look different from their other siblings.
“If you were born in UTH between the years 1983 to 1995, chances are your parents may not be your biological parents. I had developed a habit of swapping newly born babies just for fun. So take a good look at your siblings. If for example everyone is light and you are darkie . . . you are that child and I am really sorry for that.”
What would you say about such an issue?
It is possible that someone’s marriage was broken because of this inconsiderate act. It is also possible that someone might have committed suicide just after thinking that their wife has not been faithful when in actual fact it was all a fabrication by someone else.
In life, let us learn to consider the consequences of our actions. It may not cost us directly but it may cost others, even their lives.
This lady’s nature of work – nursing – should be a calling. One must be committed to serving others, it is not a search for money. Only selfish people think that their job is only for their survival, not for service to others.
It is, therefore, important for all of us to realise the importance of considering how our actions within particular areas of service affect other people.
Being a nurse, she had the opportunity to effect positive change in people’s lives but rather, she chose to do otherwise. Say one works in a restaurant. They are there to make sure people get the best to eat and go backs to their respect homes healthier because of the food. But one can choose to make sure they add a pinch of cyanide to some of the beverages. Can they then argue that they did it for fun?
That is murder, that is being inconsiderate. It is grossly inhuman and it’s no different from the nurse whom we some people trusted with their lives but instead choose to manipulate their vulnerabilities.
If this level of wickedness is spread across then the world would not be habitable. People in all areas work, they are there to serve others and to consider the well-being of the benefactors.
So we shall realise that what has kept most of us going is that we came across people who considered our well being when they offered their service to us.
If your doctor had chosen to inject you with another ailment or nasty substance, you could have never suspected him. However, he chose not to do that because it is embedded within every human being to be considerate of the other for the proper survival and prosperity of humanity as a species.
In cases like these, we are shocked by discoveries of this nature. We are reminded of the need to be considerate of others in whatever we do. Imagine if your bus driver chooses to plunge the bus into the bridge and commits suicide with you on board?
It can be a crazy world and things like this happen everyday. Suicide bombers detonate explosions, even among school children. There is so much wrath within us and it can affect the world negatively when left unattended to.
Doing right and being considerate should be a deliberate choice that one has to consciously make every single day. We all have a trait and potential to do wrong and even to be evil; it can only be conscious effort that steers our actions towards good. This has to be deliberate.
We hear others blaming demons after going berserk. I really think every demon, before it uses an individual, has a moment or seconds where it leaves your mind and gives you an opportunity to decide whether to do it or not.
Let us choose to be considerate before executing anything.
Life is given value by the person next to you. Their well-being is your well-being and therefore, whatever you do, consider them as well.
If this planet had no people, you would not want to stay on it alone with all its gold and diamonds. Even if you were to inherit Bill Gates’ wealth and Jeff Besos was to give you another ten billion to say you must now stay on earth alone, you wouldn’t take it.
Also remember, what comes around goes around. You will surely pay somehow!
Quote of the week: In everything you do, consider others!
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