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shared experiences of Doren Hospital’s former clients. This is the very
story that prompted them. A young promising Nigerian, Adekunle Sanusi
lost his equally young, talented and promising wife to the hospital’s
negligence.
On August 27th at about 1am I rushed
my wife, Rayo, to Doren Specialist Hospital Ajah as she was having
severe stomach pains; Doren Specialist Hospital was the closest hospital
to us on our HMO list.
My wife had used the hospital
previously to treat an acute neck fracture and she was attended to by
the Medical director, Dr. Ekong hence it was normal for us to go there
because we did not have any reason to second guess their services.
Upon arrival at Doren Hospital, we
were attended to by nurses on duty who referred immediately to the
Doctor on duty Dr. Felix, whom we later found out to be just a senior
medical officer rather than a properly qualified medical doctor
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Dr. Felix’s initial prognosis was
that the cause of my wife’s abdominal pain could be appendicitis, but my
wife told Dr. Felix that she was pregnant so this prompted Dr. Felix to
call the resident gynecologist Dr. Lasisi to also have a check on my
wife to ascertain the actual cause of the pain in her abdomen. Dr.
Lasisi gave another prognosis to be either acute appendicitis or ectopic
pregnancy and Dr. Lasisi said my wife would be admitted immediately for
close monitoring and running of scan/tests
My wife was promptly admitted and
given a pain relieving drip. My wife was initially admitted to the
general ward and they premised their reason on the fact that they needed
clearance from the HMO to move her to a private ward but I insisted
that she be moved to a private ward because I could afford to pay
whatever bill accrued without necessary recourse to the HMO, the
hospital obliged.
By 9am my wife went for the scan and
her blood was taken for other tests, the scan revealed she had twins
but one of the babies was in the Fallopian tube instead of the womb;
after the scan the gynecologist Dr. Lasisi came to my wife’s private
ward to address us on the result of the scan and he gave us 2 options of
treatment.
Dr Lasisi gave us the Surgery option
in which my wife will undergo a minor surgery to remove the ectopic
pregnancy or the second option of simply injecting the ectopic baby from
outside under the guide of radio scan. We choose the less invasive
option of injecting the ectopic pregnancy from outside the body and Dr.
Lasisi promised to get on it and left the room.
We waited in the private ward for
the treatment to begin, only for us to discover that the hospital hadn’t
done anything to start treatment based on the excuse of waiting for
clearance from the HMO. I insisted again with anger that they should
proceed without the HMO because payment would not be an issue for us.
Kunle, Rayo and their daughter
It was in the process of waiting for
the hospital to begin treatment that my wife started having the severe
abdominal pain again and this time it was not receding rather it was so
severe that my wife was in uncontrollable tears because of the agony of
pain; I went and vented for the medical personnel to get the doctors to
act!
Upon the arrival of Dr. Lasisi, he
said my wife had to go for surgery based on the level of pain she was at
the moment and he told us that there was a high possibility that the
ectopic pregnancy has ruptured, she was prepped for surgery and the
surgery started at about 4:04pm.
The surgery lasted for more than 1
hour. When my wife came out from surgery she responded to calls and
command given to her by the doctors. After some checks for her vital
signs, the doctors left as well as the nurses leaving me with her, it
was after this that her pulse went up that I went to call the doctors
again and I was told to go to the recovery room, this was the last time I
saw my wife alive!
It was all smiles until Doren Hospital happened
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