Posted on: Thu 11-09-2014

Chief Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, FMC,  Lokoja, Kogi State, Dr. Gbadebo Eleshin, yesterday, said the centre would appeal the suspension of four  of its doctors by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.

Last week, the Medical and Dental Council suspended Dr. Temitope Gabriel Onile for three months, while     Drs Nzurumike Charles Nanna, Danmusa Adamu Ochala and Omotayo Oluwa Damilola were each suspended for six months.

At a briefing, Eleshin said the suspension was carried out “in error by the Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. The suspension was issued to the four doctors as a result of a pregnant woman whose time of delivery went beyond the Expected Day of Delivery, EDD, which was admitted for observation. When her condition eventually defied normal delivery and induction, and it was discovered that the woman’s uterus had ruptured, the doctors quickly prepared her for caesarean session, to save the mother and the baby, but both gave up the ghost on the way to the theatre as a result of complications.”

He revealed that the deceased’s husband, Pastor Philip, a friend of the doctors, petitioned the Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal even after the hospital sent a special delegation to him.

He said: “To tell you how close we are to Pastor Philip, we even paid a condolence visit to the family, but he petitioned Medical Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal and eventually the tribunal tried the case and suspended these doctors, on the ground that it was the drug they administered on her that led to her death.” 

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