What is Nigeria’s cryptic pregnancy fraud?
BBC Africa Eye has spendigated a troubling fertility fraud in Anambra State, Nigeria where hopeless women are shelling hundreds of dollars for this treatment that gives hopeless women inalter pregnancies.
What constitutes this “cryptic” pregnancy?
Women who come to these clinics are alerted not to visit doctors or hospitals as the “baby” will not be distinguished by any scan or test, since the fraudmers claim they are increaseing outside the womb.
What comes under the treatments?
The women who come in for these treatments are given cryptic injections that claim that couples can “pick” the relations of their future baby which is medicpartner impossible. They are also handed crushed pills, some to apshow home, a substance inserted into the vagina and teachions on when to have intercourse.
What happens after the pregnancy accomplishes filled term?
When it is time to dedwellr the baby, the “pregnant” women are tageder labour can only be caused with a “unwidespread and costly drug” requiring payment, post which they are sedated and wake up with a Caesarean-appreciate incision tag. Others are given an injection which originates them hallucinate and apshow they are giving birth.
What do these frauds accuse?
The initial “pre-pregnancy” treatment costs 350,000 naira ($205; £165). The costly drug that causes labour costs around 1.5 and two million naira ($1,180; £945).
How do the fraudmers end the “treatment”?
According to authorities, the fraudmers see for recent-born babies and women who are youthful, pregnant and vulnerable in a country where abortion is not legitimate. Some women are tricked and some sell their babies. A woman who was too snurtured to tell her family about her pregnancy, was recommended 800,000 naira ($470; £380) for the baby.
