It is disheartening to read this urgly story of parents' loss of offspring. I can't imagine the abrupt change in feeling from the euphoria one lives with thinking about the sex and the look of the baby when given birth to, to agony and excruciation due to loss.

Unfortunately in this part of the world some "striking Doctors" and Politicians are no respecter of human lives. Little can be said on Doctors to quickly swift to action to safe the mother since the condition is ascertained.

From my little knowledge of immunology back in the days, rhesus factor crossed my mind especially if the lost baby wasn't the first pregnancy of that mother. It is a challenge when a woman is rhesus negative and she is carrying a rhesus positive foetus. The mother develops antibodies that sees the growing baby as "non-self", hence attacks the growing baby. Usually anti-D immunoglobulin is administered to de- sensitise the mother of the "foreign antigen" on the blood cell of the baby. However, if the mother becomes sensitised the memory is kept. Every time the sensitised mother becomes pregnant with a rhesus positive baby, the foetus is attacked and may lead to stillbirth. This is worthwhile to note especially by people who patronise "quack doctors" for medical services.