Leap Africa Alumni Association is seeking justice for one of their own, who lost her son and later died in the process of delivery carelessly managed by a hospital in Magodo, Lagos. Read the touching story after the cut.
This is
Chisom Anekwe (nee Okereke), a young, vivacious, graceful, kind-hearted and
intelligent woman who had devoted her life to helping indigent kids and giving
their lives a meaning. She’s an alumna of LEAP Africa.
Two weeks
ago, precisely April 30th 2017, Chisom died under questionable circumstances at
Magodo Specialist Hospital while trying to birth her third offspring. We
believe strongly that the authorities need to ensure that lives are taken
sacred in hospitals like Magodo Specialist Hospital where such avoidable deaths
are recorded.
Chisom was
admitted in the hospital four days
before she got into labour. She already had two daughters birthed in the
same hospital and was there to birth her third child, a son. While at the
hospital, no one attended to her when she needed the help to be delivered of
the long awaited baby. She was left for hours in labour. This happened until
her husband created a scene, which eventually caused the doctors to go to her
ward and on inspection they found out that the baby had struggled and died.
The husband
at this point requested for a CS which he paid for and even signed the consent
form presented by the hospital. He was then tricked out of the room to go
prepare for blood transfusion and on getting back, he found out that the
doctors had induced the wife and delivered the dead baby without operation not
minding that the CS procedure had been paid for. This was also without his
consent.
During the
process of delivering the baby, the placenta got ruptured and the doctors left
her like that, no further attendance still. Shortly after, the husband noticed
she was swelling up in her stomach area and called the attention of the doctors
who said they were getting ready for a surgery, a preparation that took longer
than usual.
After
waiting in vain for the surgical team, the frustrated husband went furiously to the reception to demand why
they were wasting time only to discover the doctor had sneaked out of the
hospital under funny pretences. At this point he got other hospital staff to wheel
her out of the hospital and in that process Chisom died!
This is the
story of most young women who die while giving birth as a result of the
callousness, ignorance and carelessness of inexperienced doctors.
In this era,
we shouldn't be talking about Child and Maternal Mortality especially when it
can be avoided. This could have been avoided but it wasn't and now Chisom Jane
Anekwe is a victim and has been added to the statistics.
We demand;
1. That
Magodo Specialist Hospital, Shangisha, Lagos, be investigated for their actions
and the subsequent death of Chisom.
2. That both
the Nigerian Medical Association NMA and the Medical and Dentist Council of
Nigeria, MDCN ensure that supposed Specialist Hospitals who claim to have a
resident Gynecologist are verified.
3. That
there be justice for Chisom!
#SaveTheNextVICTIM
#Justice4Chisom
#Fight4OurDaughters
Signed
Leap Africa Alumni Association
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