Posted by Oluwasola Oladunjoye, a weightlifter, has claimed that his pregnant wife Islamiat was murdered at Korede Hospital in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
However, the hospital has refuted the report.
According to Oladunjoye, his wife passed away on Sunday due to complications after a caesarean section (CS) performed by a team of doctors lead by two physicians.
He claims that the doctor who operated on his wife abandoned her after he refused to pay an additional N150,000 on top of the N300,000 he had already been asked to pay.
“We were charged N300,000 for CS when we arrived at the hospital. They wanted me to pay N15,000 more to have more tests done. I was required to pay a N300,000 refundable deposit in addition to the N15,000 exam fee.
“A little while later, I was shown into the theater. The second doctor there was the one who had already killed my wife when I arrived. After I paid the initial N300,000, he said I owed him an additional N150,000. When I questioned the surcharge, he said it was because the infant was in poor health. I then departed.
“When I got back to the operating room when they finished, mom and baby were doing OK. The infant was healthy. My wife has a tear, the doctor insisted, and they need to stitch it, so they want an extra N150,000.
“As soon as I said, ‘I can’t pay,’ he stopped working, but I told him to go ahead and finish his job anyhow. ‘Why would you stop the operation?’ I said. He continued, “I then exited the theater.”
Oladunjoye said he had left the hospital to go shopping for the newborn and his wife when he received a phone call asking him to come back.
To my astonishment, when I got back, the same doctor was giving blood to my wife. In my opinion, they were searching for a way to conceal their tracks despite knowing full well what they had done wrong. Before they started doing it, we had not agreed to donate blood. That threw me off. The doctor should not give blood to the patient because…
“When I was invited to the ward, I discovered she had died,” he stated through sobs.
The distressed guy claimed that after his wife passed away, the administration at Korede Hospital called the police to have him arrested.
Exclaiming, “They killed my wife and also wanted the police to arrest me,” he continued: ”
In response, hospital management dismissed the husband’s claims and said the husband was at fault for his wife’s death due to his own irresponsibility.
Korede Hospital’s chairman, Dr. Tayo Apampa, said that Oladunjoye’s wife was admitted despite not being a patient there due to her critical condition.
Apampa explained, “The situation is that this woman is not a regular patient of ours but was brought in for emergency care.” She was in labor, she’d already had two caesarean sections, she hadn’t been to any antenatal appointments, and they were broke.
But the doctor, seeing the dire situation, didn’t care that they were broke. The doctors skipped the waiting room and proceeded straight to the operating room.
He stated the baby was pulled out but that “they suctioned it” when doctors saw that the incisions from her earlier surgery had torn and were bleeding.
Apampa mentioned that the doctors determined the woman’s suitability for the CS based on her PCV level. It was because “the PCV was high and they went in for surgery,” he explained.
He continued, though, saying that they saw the patient was looking a little pale after surgery and they sought blood from the blood bank to give her because her family had been unable to arrange for a donor.
When it was too late, the doctor gave blood to save the patient’s life. They tried everything to save the woman, but in the end, it was too late,” he said.