CSO Releases Findings on Death of Former Minister’s In-law
A coalition of civil organisations on Monday, October 17, released its findings on the death of Apostle Paul Egbon, a brother in-law to the former minister of aviation, Osita Chidoka at the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi over the weekend.
Leading newsmen to the medical centre, Musa Attah, the executive director of the Advocate of Social Justice for All (ASJA) said queired a claim by the former minister that his brother in-law died due to neglience by doctors and health workers on duty on Saturday, October 15.
Attah noted that Egbon while denying having chest pain according to the hospital management, had complained of right-sided shoulder pain and six months recurrent shortness of breath.
He said “The attending doctor evaluated him and requested investigations that included; Electrocardiogram (ECG), Echocardiography, fasting lipid profile, Serum electrolyte, urea and creatinine. “The doctor made effort to ensure the patient had the investigation done by speaking directly with the patients’ Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), particularly the investigation required to enable immediate review of the patient.”
His words: “The two doctors working in the emergency at that time evaluated the patient and confirmed him dead “From our findings, the doctor on duty invited the elderly man that accompanied the corpse to the hospital into the ER consulting room, explained his findings and broke the unfortunate news to him. Another relation who happened to be a medical doctor joined them at that juncture.
He added that the doctor, as show of empathy filled out the appropriate form and handed it over to a hospital staff to lead the dead patient relations who were three in number to the mortuary.
He continued: “They however opted to have a session of Christian prayers, while they did so, they were then joined by Osita Chidoka who was identifed as the brother-in-law to the late patient. “After a while, the relations accepted to take the corpse to the mortuary. At this time, the emergency room doctor took the relations to the mortuary to ensure a seamless process of handover of the corpse to the mortuary staff”