By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
A husband, Mr Sunday Oghogho, has narrated how his pregnant wife was allegedly butchered to death by a student-doctor at Edo Specialist Hospital, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria..
Mr Oghogho disclosed this on his Twitter handle, @efewonyi, with the name Chief Azuwa, on Thursday in a thread.
The deceased
He said his pregnant wife had approached the hospital where they had earlier registered for antenatal care, for delivery when things turned awry.
According to him, in spite of paying every bill required of him, his wife was somewhat experimented on by the student-doctored after she was delivered of a baby boy.
While calling for justice from the Edo State government and well-wishers, he gave a bit-by-bit account of what transpired before his wife breathed her last in the hospital:
The deceased
“When my Wife, Faith Oghogho took in, I registered her for antenatal at the Edo Specialist Hospital with the sum of #70,000.
“On the 27th day of March, 2023 as time for her delivery approaches, I took her to the said hospital.
“After meeting the doctor, he checked and induced her and told us to come back in the evening that same day.
“We actually went back at about 4:00p.m in the evening that same day.
“From there, my wife was ushered into the Labour Ward. She laboured from that Monday evening till 11:00a.m Wednesday before she finally gave birth to a baby boy without any operation conducted on Her.
The deceased while on admission
“Immediately after delivery, she started bleeding. I was told by the doctor that the only way to stop the bleeding was to remove her womb.
“Like a sick patient who must obey his physician, I concurred. In the process of removing her womb, the kidney was affected. This aggravated the whole thing. She kept bleeding.
“The doctor again instructed that I have to buy blood. I bought 22 pints of blood and also bought blood from live donors. But all to no avail.
“From here, the doctor instructed I do Dialysis which I did for three days at the cost of N80,000.
After which doctor Osahon placed my wife on intensive care since her kidney had already be tampered with.
Mrs Aghogho
“A day before she died, I was told to discharge the newborn baby so as to minimize the hospital bills, which my wife consented to.
“The following day after discharging the baby, at 6:00a.m, I received a phone call from the hospital that my wife was dead, that I should hurry up to come and remove her dead body as they don’t have mortuary in the hospital.
“Getting there, I was made to pay N600,000 as balance payment before allowing me to carry my deceased wife to a morgue, elsewhere.
“On the 18th day of April after her death, I received a phone call from the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Sunday Adeoye with this number 08034684739 that my attention was needed at the hospital in respect to my wife’s death.
“Getting there with some of my family members, we met the CMD, and one Doctor Oriakhi, amongst (7 other Doctors) of the hospital who condoled and apologized to us that they have discovered that it was a student doctor who operated my wife.
“The CMD further said assuming we had not paid the hospital bills, they would have deducted from the bills for us. But since the hospital bills had already been paid and entered into government account, there’s nothing they or anybody could do unless such person wants to throw weight with the government, that the hospital belongs to the government.
“He further assured us that even if we go to court, it’ll never be in our favour since the government is involved.
“At this juncture, I’m therefore using this platform to call on the government and all and sundry, especially all relevant agencies saddled with such responsibility with such cases as mine, to please help investigate and the needful be done.
“The vacuum left for me is over weighing. Taking care of the newborn baby with the other kids in the absense of my wife make my heart bleeds.”
As of the time of filing the report, neither the Edo State government not the hospital had responded to the incident.
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