The Lagos
University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, has described as
unfounded, the accusation that one of its patients, Mrs Folake Oduyoye,
died because of its negligence.
The Acting Chief Medical Director of LUTH, Chris Bode, made the assertion on Saturday in Lagos at a news conference.
The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) had on Friday, petitioned the management of LUTH over Oduyoye’s death. The husband of the deceased, Adeyemi Oduyoye, had in the petition, claimed that the hospital detained and abandoned his wife without adequate medical care because of his indebtedness to the hospital.
But Bode, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said that the woman was admitted unconscious on September 17 as an emergency case, following complications from a caesarian operation earlier performed in a private hospital. The acting CMD said that examinations showed that the patient was in shock with possibility of intra-abdominal collection confirmed to be abscess.
He said: “This lady came into LUTH in critical condition, unconscious and infected from caesarian operation performed in another hospital. “She underwent a major operation at which plenty of pus was evacuated from her abdomen. “She underwent a tracheotomy, creating a hole on her neck to enable her breath and stay alive. “She was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with multiple organ failure. For one month, she was on ventilator, a machine which was breathing for her. “She also developed two episodes of cardiac arrest from which she was rescued.
“She also developed renal failure for which she underwent four sessions of haemodialysis.” Bode added that contrary to other opinions, the healthcare team efforts kept the woman alive, despite the strike embarked on by health workers.
The Acting Chief Medical Director of LUTH, Chris Bode, made the assertion on Saturday in Lagos at a news conference.
The Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) had on Friday, petitioned the management of LUTH over Oduyoye’s death. The husband of the deceased, Adeyemi Oduyoye, had in the petition, claimed that the hospital detained and abandoned his wife without adequate medical care because of his indebtedness to the hospital.
But Bode, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said that the woman was admitted unconscious on September 17 as an emergency case, following complications from a caesarian operation earlier performed in a private hospital. The acting CMD said that examinations showed that the patient was in shock with possibility of intra-abdominal collection confirmed to be abscess.
He said: “This lady came into LUTH in critical condition, unconscious and infected from caesarian operation performed in another hospital. “She underwent a major operation at which plenty of pus was evacuated from her abdomen. “She underwent a tracheotomy, creating a hole on her neck to enable her breath and stay alive. “She was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with multiple organ failure. For one month, she was on ventilator, a machine which was breathing for her. “She also developed two episodes of cardiac arrest from which she was rescued.
“She also developed renal failure for which she underwent four sessions of haemodialysis.” Bode added that contrary to other opinions, the healthcare team efforts kept the woman alive, despite the strike embarked on by health workers.
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