UK-Based Nigerian Vows To Take Down LUTH For Killing Brother

• “CMD is the main culprit in my brother’s death.”

In what could be a grave dent to Federal Government and also erode its gains towards repositioning the country’s health sector, Lagos university teaching hospital (LUTH) has been accused of deliberately killing a UK based Nigeria man who needed medical attention.

As gathered by Eko Hot Blog, a man who identified himself as Judespeaks, in a now viral video, has accused the hospital of extortion, murder, wilful dereliction of duty and avarice.

He disclosed that top medical personnel in the state refused to attend to his brother despite collecting huge amount of money.

He also said his brother did not get a bed for treatment not until 2am, eleven hours after he was rushed to the hospital.

Jude said one Adewale Adeniyi, a taxi driver he described as angel, took his brother to LUTH after he fell ill but was not given a whiff of medical attention despite being asked to pay ₦300,000 as deposit. He said despite paying the money, his brother was put in dingy and squalid room where no one came to attend him.

After demanding that his brother be moved to the intensive care unit (ICU), he said the hospital issued a certificate claiming that his brother had COVID-19, dashing all hope of moving his brother to another hospital because no hospital will accept a COVID-19 patient, especially one who appeared to be at death’s door.

Judespeaks, however, refuted the COVID-19 claims of the hospital, he said that his brother did a COVID-19 test two days before he took ill and the result came back negative.

He disclosed that his brother was in the country for four weeks visit but was killed by the Nigerian healthcare system.

He said the doctors led by chief medical officers (CMD) of LUTH are behind his brother’s death, asserting that the CMD is the main culprit.

Judespeaks gives the first names of the doctor behind death of his brother as Ajayi, Agabi, shoyebi and John.

Speaking further in the ten minutes video, Jude vowed to take down the individuals culpable for the professional negligence that led to his brother’s death, a move he believes will consequently sanitize the highly corrupt and inept healthcare system in the country.

The situation is not an an isolated case and it has become a norm for health workers to capitalise on the misery and ordeal of Nigerians seeking medical care for pecuniary gain. When the twin note of incompetence and covetousness combine, the outcome can be deadly.

This development further underscored the enormity of negative and dangerous issues that undermines Nigeria’s healthcare system and the country as a whole.

Medical facilities have become system that had been more of death traps and corruption has become norm.

Nigeria is a country that’s plagued with many challenges but most of this challenges are artificial, they are designed by unscrupulous characters both in public and private sectors, these characters are hellbent on stampeding the progress of a promising nation because to have a nation built on accountability, transparency, justice and fairness is to endanger the existence of this motley crowd of irksome, shameless and devilish renegades.

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From security to health to economy, you will always find a sizable number of these heinous characters in every facet of public life in Nigeria. So much so that  sacred and highly sensitive area of governance like the health sector is crashing under the sheer weight of mind-boggling corruption and flagrant disregard for human life.

It’s not uncommon for hapless Nigerians to lament the situation of things in Nigerian hospitals, especially the government owned ones. Aside from the lack of well-equipped sophisticated and contemporary medical facilities, the ugly, distasteful and diabolical practices by health workers have further worsened an already dispiriting situation.

The number of stories of how the greed and shocking indifference of corrupt and incompetent health workers are as many as the number of health workers waiting on the sideline to shortchanged the system and unleash terror on innocent Nigerians.

Many of these sordid stories of inhumanity do not make it to the public domain, while few come to the notice of distressed and forlorn citizens.

Lastly, the federal government should order a comprehensive investigation into the issue with a view to ensuring that those involved in the show of shame are brought to book and put in place measures that will not only forestall another occurrence of such ignominious incident but also rid the health the sector of systemic corruption and incompetence, hence restoring the efficiency and reliability that the Nigeria healthcare system was known in for in days of yore.