A man has alleged that the Island Maternity centre in Lagos is to blame for the death of his wife during a caesarean section (CS).
Accoring to the aggrieved husband, he took her wife there for her scheduled CS and was the third person to be operated that day.
Tweeting with the handle, @KELIONARTS, the husband said the baby was brought out to him after 15 minutes, but his wife was there for another 15 minutes before they told him to go and look for more blood.
He alleged that the nurse told him they saw fibroid inside his wife and it was cut off.
He said he believed this was a mistake because fibroid could not just be flippantly removed.
Read his tweets below:
“Island maternity took my wife’s life due to incompetence and stupidity.
My wife was scheduled for a CS on the 29th Oct 24. That morning we arrived the hospital and were booked. I made payments for everything including delivery of 2 pints of -ve O blood.
She was the 3rd person booked for the day. The first 3 people stayed an average of 30 minutes in the theatre before both baby and mother where brought out.
When it was her turn after 3 people, she was wheeled into the theatre….
About 15 minutes later my son was brought out and shown to me. A pretty baby boy.
I expected my wife would be out in the next 15 but a nurse came to meet me that they needed me to source for more saw fibroid in my wife’s womb and they cuy it off hence the delay. “Cut it off”?
Who asked for them to cut it off? They asked me to go get 2 more pints of blood (NB: this blood is not just easy to get). Luckily for me I made calls and we got the 2 pints.
They brought her out, hooked intravenous thingies on her and stuff. A few hours passed. Nurse asked me to go get Rogham from the pharmacy. While I was there I got a call from my BIL that my wife was being rushed into the theatre again.
On rushing back the nurse told me her tummy was swelling due to blood accumulation and they had to take her in for emergency surgery. They had already gotten my BIL to sign a form for complete removal of her uterus.
After more than 30 minutes she was brought out and wheeled to the ICU where she struggled for her life. I had to rally for 4 more pints of blood which included renting the hospital ambulance all the way to Gbagada and then Yaba to get blood plasma then getting 4 more pints of blood from wherever we could get from. She was on the 7th pint when she went into cardiac arrest and never made it back.
My wife died due to the hospital’s incompetence because I they had informed me about carrying out a fibroid operation while CS I would have told them not to. Please help me put it out there.
I need lawyers who are willing to help us on a litigation. @Fmohnigeria, @hm_womenaffairs”
