Eko Hot Blog reports that Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has opened up on the loss of his first grandchild, whom he said died of medical neglect at a federal government hospital.
Akpabio, who did not reveal the name of the hospital, spoke on Friday during the screening of Dr Tunji Alausa, a ministerial nominee from Lagos.
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The senate president explained that the incident happened in 2019.
He stated that boy died from excessive bleeding while there was no doctor or nurse around to help him.
“Like every other person, I have been a victim of medical neglect. I lost my first grandchild in 2019 in a federal medical centre,” Akpabio said.
“He died through bleeding. He was receiving drip and it was tissued (blocked) in the night. There was no help, no doctor, no nurse.
“He bled until he lost over 60 percent of his blood and was almost going mental. He struggled and fell on the floor; he was looking for water to drink.
“He rolled on the floor outside and entered the early morning dew, and poured the dew all over his body, and that was where they found him.”
He said his grandchild was found the next morning in a coma and efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
“By that time, he had gone into a coma. I was on my way to Port Harcourt for the 2019 rally when they called me.
“I entered there and struggled with the doctor to revive him. They went and brought a defibrillator to attempt to revive the heart, but it did not work.”
The senate president said he later gathered that the defibrillator stopped working eight years ago.
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“I used my hand and struggled with my personal physician, I could not revive him. I had to close his eyes and put him in the mortuary,” he said.
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