This explains why our medical system does not
function properly, People are not dedicated in achieving their very best and
the masses are the worse hit except you have a medical insurance which is a far
cry in Nigeria as people
don't understand the importance of it,While many cannot afford it.....A
pathetic situation in Nigeria.
Read Below Senator Jim Nwobodo story culled from This Nation:
Senator Jim Nwobodo yesterday narrated how his
son, Dr. Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo jnr died following the alleged negligence of a
doctor.
Nwobodo said his son was cured at the Anderson
Medical Cancer Centre in Houston,
Texas, United
States.
He said Ifeanyichukwu was asked to stay longer in
the U.S.
but he wanted to return because he was feeling homesick.
The former governor of the old Anambra State
said his son developed pains in the legs and he was taken to a consultant
oncologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu.
He added that the doctor, instead of taking him
to the teaching hospital, which had facilities for emergency, referred his son
to his private clinic.
According to Nwobodo, the injection administered
on his son led to complications.
The senator spoke yesterday when Abia State Governor
Theodore Orji visited him in Enugu.
Nwobodo said the doctor tried to rush his son to Niger Foundation
Hospital, but he died on
the way.
He said: “My son was ill for five months before I
knew about it and we were planning to go to India
before we took him to the U.S.
He was given a visa for two years because the cancer was at stage four, but
they treated him.
“When he came back, his leg started to swell and
he thought he should see a doctor and I advised him to see the best oncologist.
It took us three weeks to see the doctor.
‘’Ön Friday – I was speaking with him three times
a day and he was to see the doctor by 5pm and between 5:30 and 6pm, I called
him and he said he was with the doctor, I requested to speak with the doctor
but he said he was busy but instead of the doctor taking him to UNTH, he took
him to his private clinic, where he had no equipment, no facility at all.
I called him again and when I didn’t hear
from him I sent him text and I asked the doctor to tell me why he gave my son
injection that made him unconscious, he said he was sorry and that he was
trying to resuscitate him.
“I spoke with him by 6:30pm and by 7 pm he was
dead.“It is painful because this is something that would have been averted and
I can’t understand why a dean of Department of Medicine should leave the
hospital where he has all the equipment to go to his private clinic and I
believe that is how some other people die.”
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