SolarEdge:
We noticed some rash in our 4 months old baby's sex organ which I perceived is a reaction from her diapers, we took her to the hospital for checkup and they recommended anti fungal cream to be applied and instructed that we don't wear her diapers for now while we apply the cream.

While waiting at the hospital pharmacy I noticed the attendant was taking longer time to attend to me, because the doctor had already written to them what they should give to me with my baby's file in front of the attendant. The attendant still asked how old is the baby I said 4 months. She was just giving excuses that she's coming that I should be patient, so I sat down.

After some time she brought the cream and some drugs. We left and got home very late last night, so my wife suggested my baby should start the drugs by morning but we should apply the cream given to us and we did not wear our baby diaper as instructed.

So this morning my wife decided to read through the leaflet in each of the drugs including the cream. To our greatest surprise the cream was strictly meant for adults and it was categorically stated it should not be used for children under age 18

Now, I'm wondering why would the hospital pharmacy attendant give us such cream. Is it that the prescribed cream wasn't available that was why she was going to and fro like the devil described in the book of Job in the Holy Bible.

Please what's your advise on this matter, is it a careless mistake or it was a deliberate act.

Which diapers are you using?

jagaban002:
Take am easy no sue them because of cream , they may be a mistake and no one is above That .

Your comment makes me sadder than dancing with my neighbour's sister.

You should smoke the attendant also

Dont waste ur time, is chloroquine meant for corona?
Is there antifungal meant for children? Ur child has candida rash, which is a fungal and u applied antifungal.
Atimes such proscriptions are given base on how de clinician see de rash.
Wats the harm, very low even if u apply all the tube in 2 days.
High chance dat de drug wil clear the rash dan harm

No matter how juicy it might seem to sue. Firstly, can we know the name of the antifungal cream. Somehow I know for such cream to be contraindicated for patients of such age, it probably must have a corticosteroid.

Also, you can have a tangible case if only such has been used and it inflicted harm to the baby, then you have a solid ground for litigation.

In addition, most of the patients that visit hospital pharmacy feels that the pharmacist has no contribution to make (that is if it's even a pharmacist that is attending to you) or are always in a haste to go, feeling that they have spent quite some time in the hospital than another important section (Pharmacy) of the health system to steal their time. I actually blame the system flow/arrangement, because you will even see another patient walk up to the pharmacist to ask if he/she isn't done with the patient he/she is attending to.

If I have my way, the setup will be that: you have to be ushered in; into the pharmacy unit where you meet the pharmacist, with brief explanation of why you are on the hospital visitation, your drug history if any; proper verification of your drugs for side effects and possible interactions, counseling on how to use/apply your prescribed drug(s). This is what it should be!, but you know in Nigeria, anything can go. Patients, on average in Nigerian hospitals spend approximately 30 seconds with their pharmacist. Now tell me how 30seconds can discover and address all these.

Abroad, there is a high statistics of people dying of different kinds of medication/ prescription error. Well, let's not talk about Nigeria, because we don't even have a data base more or less data itself.

Well, we will talk about patent medicine dealers later. Our healthcare needs urgent reform, but our leaders careless of that.

Take it easy.. You should be thankful to God. That you found out before using it on your child. Don't be the reason why someone else will lose hes/her Job.. Times are hard no work out there... Simply got back to the Doctor and sound a warning... PEACE.

SolarEdge:
We noticed some rash in our 4 months old baby's sex organ which I perceived is a reaction from her diapers, we took her to the hospital for checkup and they recommended anti fungal cream to be applied and instructed that we don't wear her diapers for now while we apply the cream.

While waiting at the hospital pharmacy I noticed the attendant was taking longer time to attend to me, because the doctor had already written to them what they should give to me with my baby's file in front of the attendant. The attendant still asked how old is the baby I said 4 months. She was just giving excuses that she's coming that I should be patient, so I sat down.

After some time she brought the cream and some drugs. We left and got home very late last night, so my wife suggested my baby should start the drugs by morning but we should apply the cream given to us and we did not wear our baby diaper as instructed.

So this morning my wife decided to read through the leaflet in each of the drugs including the cream. To our greatest surprise the cream was strictly meant for adults and it was categorically stated it should not be used for children under age 18

Now, I'm wondering why would the hospital pharmacy attendant give us such cream. Is it that the prescribed cream wasn't available that was why she was going to and fro like the devil described in the book of Job in the Holy Bible.

Please what's your advise on this matter, is it a careless mistake or it was a deliberate act.

sue

Everybody is equating a doctor's degree to Google . Wait till you all kill yourselves.

Please sue them

potent5:

Sue that bastardoo. But you may have to establish the damage (injury) caused by the prescription or dispensary of the wrong drug. Otherwise, the suit may just be academic and you get just nominal damage awarded to you.

just my thought, what is the consequence of their negligence on your child..you must be able to prove some sort of physical or mental injury.

DanseMacabre:
Do you have money for legal bills should the case become protracted

Lol. Dont mind him.

Or what if the case goes against him. Coś i dont See what to sue for.

U read a leaflet and found something that feel is contrary based on ur knowlege. R u a Dr? Or pharmacist? Why do u think there is no condition or situation Such agent can be used in that age Group?what Will u pray the court to do? hahahahaahah.

Mr seuer (suya) Hahahahaahah.

Why not go to back to the hospital, See the dr or pharmacist and ask them some Questions?

So u want to sue that a topical agent was given to ur baby? not like u used it and something happened?

Smh, u r never serious.

See court nów sue. When the chips r down u May have to pay damages when the table will turn on defamation grounds, after paying lawyers for 2 yrs.
Ok bye

Abeg sue them for every penny they've got but u gotta prove beyond reasonable doubts that the drug was from that hospital or it was prescribed for ur baby. Word of mouth may just not cut it.

SolarEdge:
We noticed some rash in our 4 months old baby's sex organ which I perceived is a reaction from her diapers, we took her to the hospital for checkup and they recommended anti fungal cream to be applied and instructed that we don't wear her diapers for now while we apply the cream.

While waiting at the hospital pharmacy I noticed the attendant was taking longer time to attend to me, because the doctor had already written to them what they should give to me with my baby's file in front of the attendant. The attendant still asked how old is the baby I said 4 months. She was just giving excuses that she's coming that I should be patient, so I sat down.

After some time she brought the cream and some drugs. We left and got home very late last night, so my wife suggested my baby should start the drugs by morning but we should apply the cream given to us and we did not wear our baby diaper as instructed.

So this morning my wife decided to read through the leaflet in each of the drugs including the cream. To our greatest surprise the cream was strictly meant for adults and it was categorically stated it should not be used for children under age 18

Now, I'm wondering why would the hospital pharmacy attendant give us such cream. Is it that the prescribed cream wasn't available that was why she was going to and fro like the devil described in the book of Job in the Holy Bible.

Please what's your advise on this matter, is it a careless mistake or it was a deliberate act.

They don't care about your baby. All they care about is the quick 2k profit they can make in one day

@op
What's the name of the topical medication....
Some antifungal topical agents are off licence in children, but can still be prescribed anyway and they are safe in children....
Call the hospital and clarify....
Besides what exactly are they treating your for....
Most nappy rash can be managed with good hygiene and common barrier creams...

Sue the bustards

Ningen:


There's no excuse here.
It's not just a cream. It's wrongful medication.

And they should be held accountable for their negligent action to prevent future deadly errors.

Suing them will save “countless” lives.

Sue them since u have money for case but note this things , effidece of the damage the cream that was prescribe for u , doctor wrote the drugs but I think is the pharmacist that will be the one that sold that cream all in th name of making money . The money for case should be used to get better treatment for ur kid not for a case that is not sure I have nothing against u taking the case up just know it’s 30/70 , but if there’s enough u can go on just a friendly advise

This is the outcome of Nigerian doctors employing o level holders to do the works of Pharmacists in other to maximize profits to the detriments of patients.If u check that attendants profile u might even be more knowledgeable in drugs than him

Is a deliberate act.
Sue the motherfucker

Please sue. How else do you want our lawyers to eat?

weblord1900:
I hate Nigerian hospitals and pharmacies. They are all about the money.
Chemist shop are the worst,they nearly killed me because I don't have money to visit a standard hospital.
Sue them

Please give example of a standard hospital?

bolaayenimo:
That's how one gave my daughter Amoxil tablet meant for adult. Sue them!

U can lie oooo


Amoxil is always in capsules not Tablet

What happened was quite sad and very unfortunate. I wish your child a quick recovery. I will advise you however to have a discussion with the hospital management first and see how they react to your complaint. If they express sincere apology and are ready to treat your child ,free of charge, for the adverse effects of the wrongly prescribed/supplied drug,just let the situation slide.

Please don't just rush to the law as a way of punishing someone who might be ready to admit their wrong doings and express sincere apology for it. You can develop a fantastic relationship with the management of that hospital the result of which you can never tell.

Take it easy bro.

Some people that use FungbatA on their children will even come here to condemn the doctor. The man should move on, what's the assurance the cream will harm the baby. The complainant is not even sincere enough to name the prescribed cream.

jaxxy:


Nope u can sue even if not yet caused any harm bt cud have.

Under Negligence? Wrong

What if it's the right prescription? Physicians knows better than us....

Any drug is likely to cause harm.... But how do you prove that the drug would have caused a damage. That Doctor prescribed a drug meant for an adult to a child? Or because it's written on the leaflet that it's for adult?

So it must have caused a damage and the damage must be as a result of the child using a drug meant for an adult which the doctor prescribed negligently

SolarEdge:
We noticed some rash in our 4 months old baby's sex organ which I perceived is a reaction from her diapers, we took her to the hospital for checkup and they recommended anti fungal cream to be applied and instructed that we don't wear her diapers for now while we apply the cream.

While waiting at the hospital pharmacy I noticed the attendant was taking longer time to attend to me, because the doctor had already written to them what they should give to me with my baby's file in front of the attendant. The attendant still asked how old is the baby I said 4 months. She was just giving excuses that she's coming that I should be patient, so I sat down.

After some time she brought the cream and some drugs. We left and got home very late last night, so my wife suggested my baby should start the drugs by morning but we should apply the cream given to us and we did not wear our baby diaper as instructed.

So this morning my wife decided to read through the leaflet in each of the drugs including the cream. To our greatest surprise the cream was strictly meant for adults and it was categorically stated it should not be used for children under age 18

Now, I'm wondering why would the hospital pharmacy attendant give us such cream. Is it that the prescribed cream wasn't available that was why she was going to and fro like the devil described in the book of Job in the Holy Bible.

Please what's your advise on this matter, is it a careless mistake or it was a deliberate act.

Blame bubu for the mistake, the man just make us dey forget ourselves, just the same way he appointed a dead man as his minister, Ka-Chineke mezie okwu

SIRTee15:
@op
What's the name of the topical medication....
Some antifungal topical agents are off licence in children, but can still be prescribed anyway.....
Call the hospital and clarify....
Besides what exactly are they treating your for....
Most nappy rash can be managed with good hygiene and common barrier creams...

In a thread of 4 pages, your comment is the only one that makes sense to me. The other pages are filled with medically illiterate folks saying the OP should sue, the OP hasn't even mentioned what the name of the medicine he was prescribed is.

The are many medicines that are licensed for adults, but can be prescribed for unlicensed uses in children based on the experience of the prescriber.

I even feel say somebody died! So na because of cream make u won sue full hospital! Oga go and sit down and thank God nothing bad happened to your baby! Court case is like daily contribution the only difference be say join your money na you fit later pay the madam collector!

The major problem we have in Nigeria is that most of the junior doctors both in private and public don't have adequate knowledge about medicine. They keep on using the body of their patients to do " Trial and Error"
I took my dad to LASUTH last year because he was seriously sick...there was a female doctor that attended to him...obvious, the doctor was confused and didn't know what to do...she asks us to buy a starter pack and some other things like that....we wasted the whole day in LASUTH becos of the naive doctors.

Someone later suggested that we approach one of the specialist's doctors....in which we did. Immediately the specialist doctor checks and started treatment, within two hours my Dad gained his consciousness.

I said within me that if I don't have money to pay a private specialist doctor, this is how this man will just die for free.
There are some people that died in the hospital as a result of naive doctor or.nurse who doesn't know his or her job and yet they have the medical certificate to practice...
Lawyers are even the worst. All kind of quack lawyers that all that they are good at is only police reports and affidavits...
Some lawyers we write something that will indict their clients. Some will write with a lot of grammatical errors. Some do even know the job...a lot of them are quack lawyers. lawyers that really know his or her will make the case sweet for you...

Babcock hospital is the worst....Terrible hospital. Practice licence should be withdrawn.