Wahala don dey for Euracare Hospital as Nigeria’s top author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, don raise alarm say dem gree her pikin, Nkanu, go. This matter no be small wahala oo, as it dey involve medical negligence wey fit shake ground for Lagos. Na so e be, Adichie wey sabi as she dey yarn, don open mouth talk say if no be wetin happen for the hospital, her son for dey alive today.
According to reports wey don fly, Adichie say she pikin go amarachi after dem carry am go Euracare Hospital for MRI scan and central line insert before dem go carry the boy come abroad for medical evacuation. Na so e be say, she and her family dey for Lagos for Christmas, and as wahala come dey show, dem first think say na normal cold, but the matter quick turn serious. All this na after dem carry am go Atlantis Hospital before dem finally direct dem go Euracare.
Di plot thickens as Adichie come talk say dem give her son propofol wey suppose keep am calm during the procedure but dem no monitor am after dem inject am. She no gree ginger, as she talk say di anaesthetist give too much dose, and that one make Nkanu go unresponsive. “How elesh I fit use word for wetin happen? E be like say dem don play with my son life,” she talk. Just like that, her son end up for ventilator and ICU where he later develop serious issues wey include seizure and cardiac arrest before dem for finally talk say Nkanu don go.
Adichie no gree hold back for di matter, she don dey call di actions of di anaesthetist ‘criminal negligence’, begging say how dem fit sedate такой sick child wey no go dey monitored? Na serious case wey we dey see as dis. She even talk say di anaesthetist comot her pikin oxygen after di whole process – how dem go do like that?
Na here wey Nigerian Society of Anaesthetists (NSA) don enter di matter too, as dem wan investigate wetin really happen. Di president wey be Prof. Alhassan Mohammed talk say dem dey watch how e dey go, and dem dey expect more details so dem fit make sense of di whole issue. He emphasize say dem go check wether all di medical protocols follow or wetin cause di negligence.
For di hospital side, Euracare don talk say dem dey very sorry for di loss wey Adichie and di family dey face. Dem come say after di child arrive, dem provide adequate care according to di clinical protocols wey dem sabi follow, but sadly, di child still pass away less than 24 hours later. Dem don start internal investigation to check wetin really happen for di inside.
Dis whole matter don bring plenty tears for Nigeria, as many prominent people don dey reach out to Adichie with their condolence, including di president Bola Tinubu, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi. E no easy at all as dem dey mourn such irreplaceable loss. Dem don also advise say make everybody respect di family’s privacy during dis hard time.
As we dey keep eye for di investigation wey go follow this wahala, we go make sure say we carry una all di updates dem as dem dey drop. Na serious matter wey concern di wellbeing of our pikin dem.
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