A distraught husband, Mr. Sunday Oghogho, has accused a “student” doctor at the Edo Specialist Hospital in Benin, Edo State of “butchering” his wife, Faith Oghogho in the process of delivering a baby.
He narrated his ordeal in a post on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
Oghogho said, “When my wife, Faith Oghogho took in, I registered her for antenatal at the Edo Specialist Hospital with the sum of N70,000.
“On the 27th day of March, 2023 as time for her delivery approached, I took her to the said hospital.
“After meeting the doctor, he checked and induced her and told us to come back in the evening that same day. We actually went back at about 4pm in the evening that same day. From there, my wife was ushered into the Labour Ward.
Oghogho said that his wife labored from that Monday evening till 11am on Wednesday before she finally gave birth to a baby boy without going through cesarean section.
He said that trouble started when his wife began bleeding.
“I was told by the doctor that the only way to stop the bleeding was to remove her womb. Like a sick patient who must obey its physician, I concurred.
“In the process of removing her womb, the kidney was affected. This aggravated the whole thing. She kept bleeding.
“The doctor again instructed that I have to buy blood,” Oghogho said.
He said he bought 22 pints of blood and also bought blood from live donors but all to no avail.
“From here, the doctor instructed I do dialysis which I did for three days at the cost of N80,000, after which Doctor Osahon placed my wife on intensive care since her kidney had already been tampered with,” the distraught husband said.
He explained that a day before his wife died, he was advised to discharge the newborn baby so as to minimize the hospital bills, and his wife consented.
“The following day after discharging the baby, at 6 am in the morning, I received a phone call from the hospital that my wife was dead, that I should hurry up to come and remove her dead body as they don’t have mortuary in the hospital.
“Getting there, I was made to pay N600,000 as balance payment before allowing me to carry my deceased wife to a morgue elsewhere,” he said.
Oghogho disclosed that on April 18, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Professor Sunday Adeoye, phoned him that his attention was needed at the hospital in respect to his wife’s death.
“Getting there with some of my family members, we met the CMD, and one Doctor Oriakhi, amongst (7 other doctors) of the hospital who condoled and apologized to us that they have discovered that it was a student doctor that operated my wife.
“The CMD further said assuming we have not paid the hospital bills, they would have deducted from the bills for us but since the hospital bills had already been paid and entered into government account, there’s nothing they or anybody can do unless such person wants to throw weight with the government, that the hospital belongs to the government.
“He further assured us that even if we go to court, it’d never be for our favor since the government is involved,” he said.
Oghogho called on relevant agencies and governmental organizations to come to his aid and investigate the matter to ensure justice is served.
“The vacuum left for me is (overwhelming). Taking care of the newborn baby with the other kids in the absense of my wife make my heart bleed,” he lamented.
