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How Lagos Hospital Killed 6 Months Old Baby by Boltam(f): 5:27pm On Feb 11, 2016 |
In the cause of negligence by Doctors and
Nurses in Nigerian Hospital, many lives
have been cut short.
On many occasions, hospitals have
rejected victims of accident and
individuals in an urgent need of medical
attention, who if they had attended to,
would still be alive today.
Obviously majority of the Nigerian doctors
and nurses lack sympathy and humane
consciousness, they have less regard for
fellow human, perhaps, it is the reason
they behave the way they do.
In a recent and a heartbreaking death of a
6 months old baby that shook Fagba
residence in Lagos as a result of
negligence by the nurse attending to the
baby.
According to the bereaved family of the
child, the incident took place in private
hospital called Ayodele Hospital in Fagba
off Iju Road.
It was reported that the baby was brought
to the hospital on Saturday February 6,
2016. Before taking the baby to Ayodele
Hospital at Fagba, he was taken to Ifako
Ijaiye General Hospital on Wednesday
February 3, 2016 for treatment as a result
of teething fever. The boy was apparently
running high fever as a result of teething
problem. At the General hospital he was
given injection to bring down the
temperature and after all was discharged.
On Saturday morning the temperature
started rising again. The mother took the
baby back to the hospital and was told
that there was no bed space and was
referred to Ayinke Hospital in Ikeja.
Considering the distance and all the
troubles so far, the father decided to take
him to a big private hospital around. That
was how the baby was taken to Ayodele
in Fagba.
At the private hospital he was admitted
and they tried getting the vein in order to
pass drip and administer medication. They
could not get the vein easily so they
decided using the vein in the head. They
started administering the drip. Few
minutes later, they told the parents that
the baby is not breathing fine due to the
catarrh he had, that they have to place
him on oxygen.
After some hours, the light went off. They
called the nurses to inform the gateman
to put on the generator and for an hour
the hospital did not respond accordingly.
The baby gave up after gasping for breath.
The parents watched their baby die for
what could be avoided.
The father was so traumatized and
enraged at such negligence and the
placing of the baby at the waste bin as if
it was a dog that died.
Regardless of what the enraged father
just lost, the hospital further called the
police to arrest him.
Despite all the negligence and pain the
hospital caused the family, they still
demanded for the payment of N38, 000
before they can take the corpse of their
dead baby home for burial.
However, there’s an urgent need for the
Government to look into these hospitals
that reject and neglect patients. They
should be sanctioned and duly prosecuted
for the many lives lost for their
carelessness, negligence and act of
rejecting patients they could try to
revitalise and revive to life. |
Re: How Lagos Hospital Killed 6 Months Old Baby by Agrika: 10:38pm On Feb 12, 2016 |
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