[PHOTO] How 29-Year-Old Graduate Died After He Was Given Wrong Treatment In Lagos Hospital
Doctors at the Ikeja Medical Centre, a private facility on Allen Avenue, Ikeja are believed to have worsened the health condition of a 29-year-old graduate of the University of Bauchi, Kolawole Idowu, who later died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.
PUNCH gathered that Kolawole, who concluded his youth service in Lagos sometime in April, took ill a few days afterwards.
He was reported to have complained of “teary eyes and body pains” and had gone to the Ikeja Medical Centre, which was the family hospital. It was gathered that like other children of the family, he was born at the hospital.
After a doctor allegedly recommended some malaria drugs and later an eye drop, the situation was said to have worsened, leading to his admission to the hospital.
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The hospital later said he was manifesting signs of a mental illness and began treating him for “psychosis.”
When there was no improvement, the hospital was said to have referred him to LASUTH, where he went into a coma and later died at the Intensive Care Unit.
The victim’s brother, Kunle, said that his late brother’s medical condition was not handled properly at the medical centre, adding that he was given some injections which affected his health.
Kunle alleged that the injections made him to misbehave, saying anytime the effect of the injections wore off, he would regain his senses, run back home and beg to be taken away from the hospital.
He explained that when he (Kunle) observed that their maternal grandparents were adamant on keeping him (Kolawole) at the hospital, he challenged them and broke some property in the house, which led to his arrest and detention.
He said, “The illness started at the end of April, about a week after his youth service. I am a politician and I was running a campaign to become a councillor at that period. Kola complained that he had been having burning sensations all over his body and his eyes had been teary. I advised him to go for a lab test, but he said he would go to our family hospital. He went to the hospital where he was given an eye drop, which he started reacting adversely to.
“He went back to the medical centre and he was told that he had malaria. The doctor prescribed a malaria drug for him. However, he started reacting negatively again to the drug. That was when the doctor said he was having fits of delirium and showing signs of dementia.”
He explained that the doctor insisted on admitting Kolawole, but he objected, adding that the grandparents believed the doctor and supported the move.
On the first week of his admission, Kunle said he was not satisfied with his brother’s treatment, but the hospital assured him that Kolawole needed rest.
He noted that he became concerned when Kolawole’s friends, who also visited the hospital, made similar observations. He said he asked for the victim’s transfer to another hospital.
Kunle said he met the grandparents and asked for permission to move his brother from the hosipital, but they objected due to the family’s long-time relationship with the hospital.
“I was angry with the hospital because they kept saying different things. First, it was delirium, then stress. They kept giving him injections. My brother was always saying he wanted to leave the hospital. Once he said that, they would say he had started again and give him more injections.
“I told them that my brother was not mentally ill; he wanted to leave the hospital because they didn’t know what they were doing,” Kunle said.
He added that because of his increasing political engagement, the time he had for Kolawole became limited.
It was learnt that there was a crisis in the house on May 17, 2017, when late Kolawole ran home from the hospital.
The grandparents were reported to have called a doctor at the medical centre to come with an injection for psychiatric patients to calm him down, a suggestion rejected by Kunle.
“I was angry because each time they give him the injection, he lost his senses. They (grandparents) asked me to shut up. For two weeks, that was what they told me. I was angry and I couldn’t take it again because I knew the doctor was on the way with the injection. I lost control and started shouting that they should not give him any drug.
“He was always coming home each time he realised that they were not treating him well. But my grandparents would take him back and he would obey so that he would not look like a disobedient child. The injection was killing him.
“That day, they asked the house help to lock the door. Because I could not sit down and watch him take another injection, I broke the door and left the house,” he added.
Some relatives reportedly alerted the police of Kunle’s action and he was detained for a day.
Kunle said after that incident, he was told that his brother’s condition had aggravated and he had been taken to LASUTH.
He explained that Kolawole was admitted to the psychiatric ward of LASUTH, based on a referral letter from the medical centre.
Kunle said his brother was put in the same ward with patients who had serious mental problems and he spent about 10 days in the ward.
“He was later taken to the ICU where he spent two months and struggled to live. But the damage had been done because my brother had spent two weeks at the medical centre, 10 days at LASUTH psychiatric ward before he collapsed and was taken to the ICU.
“Some specialists at LASUTH later examined him and said it was not a psychotic case. They moved him to the ICU because he was at the point of death. I watched over him at the ICU for the two months.
“At one point, the seizure he was having stopped, and I thought he was getting better, not knowing my brother was dying,” he said.
It was gathered that he died around 4pm on July 1, 2017, at the ICU of LASUTH.
“My brother, Kolawole, has never slept at a hospital before. We want the hospital investigated. We want the government and the Nigerian Medical Association to intervene,” Olaniyi said.
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Source: Nigerian monitor
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