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Parents Demand N1bn Damages From Elizade University Over Child’s Death

Barr. Gbenga Owodolu and his wife, Oluwabukola Owodolu have demanded N1billion damages from Elizade University over the death of their child.

Gatekeepers News reports that the parents have demanded N1bn compensation as damages from the management of the Elizade University, Ilara Mokin, Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria over the death of their daughter, Temitope Owodulu at the university medical facility.

The couple in a letter written through their lawyer, Femi Emmanuel Emodamori, said their daughter, a 300-level nursing student, died as a result of the negligence of health workers at the institution’s facility.

According to the letter, their late daughter suffered an asthmatic attack in the early hours of November 16, 2021, and was admitted to the University Medical Centre facility for treatment.

She was later pronounced dead around 8 am.

The letter alleged that there was no electricity at the Medical Centre at the time Temitope was admitted in for treatment.

The letter read: “Medical personnel at the Medical Centre reportedly attended to the deceased during the blackout and reportedly lamented that they would be unable to treat the patient using the necessary electrically powered equipment, including the Nebuliser, which is essential for the treatment of acute exacerbation of severe asthma.

“Consequently, according to our brief, the medical personnel asked the deceased to continue using the same Ventolin inhaler she had been applying before her presentation in the Medical Centre.

“Although the deceased was reportedly placed on a drip upon her admission, the nurse attendant thereafter abandoned her for one and half hours during which there was a backflow of blood into the drip from her body. Within the same period, she was coughing consistently, indicating that her respiratory tract was infected. She also vomited and it was her sister who cleaned up the vomit and alerted the doctor in the absence of the nurse attendant.

“Strangely, the doctor was said to be sleeping. Eventually, the same patient that was still healthy enough to engage her sister in humorous and intelligent conversation after the commencement of treatment at the Medical Centre, died in the hand of your medical personnel. If the University medical personnel could not effectively treat or manage the deceased patient, why was she not referred to another facility?

“The University medical personnel never referred the deceased for proper treatment, apparently because they were not even on the ground to observe her properly, to know the point at which ongoing treatment was no longer producing the desired clinical improvements.

“It is a notorious fact that asthma is a preventable, treatable, and reversible medical condition. You would therefore agree with us that it is quite unusual in medical practice for an asthmatic patient who walked into the hospital herself to die in the hands of a medical doctor.”

Aside the N1bn compensation, the parents are asking for a formal acceptance and apology for the medical negligence that caused the death of their daughter.

The couple is also demanding for immortalisation of their daughter by properly equipping the University Medical Centre and naming it after the deceased as well as an undertaking to not harass, intimidate or persecute Miss Opeyemi Owodolu, a sister of the deceased in the University.

They, however, threatened to institute legal actions against the institution if their demands are not complied with within seven days from the receipt of the letter.

The spokesman for the university, Seyi Ogugbenro, claimed not to be aware of the letter.

 

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