Speaking to media following a visit to the hospital on Tuesday, the NSHR chief said the hospital’s corridors and exits are not monitored by surveillance cameras, and that there is no practice of recording the details of visitors.

Al-Oufi visited the hospital after a one-day-old baby boy, named Anas, went missing on Sunday. The child’s grandmother alleges a large dark woman with honey eyes — who frequently visited the room where the child and mother were — is behind the kidnapping.

“I came to know from her that she was divorced and loved children. Though she had no ID, I did not doubt her. She asked me to go to sleep and said she would take care of Anas, but I refused. However, after a little while I dozed off because I hadn’t slept for three nights. When I woke up around six, Anas wasn’t there,” she said.

Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed has ordered a search for the child. He has also ordered an investigation into the disappearance and for everyone connected to the hospital to be questioned.

Meanwhile, police said an attempt to kidnap two Southeast Asian nurses in the city on Monday was foiled. “The two nurses had just left a health-training institute when a man in a car posing as a taxi offered to take them to a mall,” said Brig. Mohsen Al-Raddadi, spokesman for Madinah police.

“The women, however, became suspicious when the man took a different route. The two nurses were able to jump out of the car when he stopped,” he said, adding that one of the women sustained head injuries and that a member of the public, who saw the two women jumping out of the car, called the police who took them to a nearby hospital.

Police officers are still searching for the driver who fled the scene.