The Senate President shared his experience while speaking during the screening of the ministerial nominee from Lagos State, Dr Tunji Alausa. ....
Senate President Godswill Akpabio
on Friday narrated how he lost his first grandchild to medical negligence at a
federal hospital in 2019.
He said, “Just like every other
person here, I have been a victim of medical neglect. I lost my first
grandchild in 2019, in a federal medical centre. He died through bleeding.
“He was placed on a drip that ran
into the night. There was no help, no doctor, no nurse and he bled until he
lost over 60 per cent of his blood.”
Akpabio speaking further noted that
the boy eventually went into a coma and efforts to revive him with a
defibrillator were unsuccessful because the hospital had not used it (the
defibrillator) for years.
“They went to go and bring a
defibrillator to attempt to revive the heart, but it did not work. I said for
how long, they said it stopped working eight years ago.
“I used my hand and struggled with
my physician, I could not revive him. I had to close his eyes and put him in
the mortuary, and then I proceeded to Port Harcourt for our party’s rally,”
Akpabio said.
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