The management of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has accused PUNCH Newspaper of unethical practise following its publication ‘I have sold everything, including my wedding ring, just to stay alive –Woman allegedly wrongly operated by LUTH doctors’, saying that the story is false and unfair.
Speaking during a press briefing at LUTH, the Chief Medical Director CMD, Prof. Chris Bode, said the publication is a cheap blackmail by the patient, Mrs. Lola Oniyelu, and the PUNCH reporter, Eric Dumo, who used the misinformation to raise money for her renal transplantation surgery.
“Had Mr. Dumo and indeed the revered Punch Newspaper acted professionally, they would have tarred a bit and asked the hospital’s side of the story before rushing to print such falsehood. In fact, they even advertised the purported “wrong surgery performed by LUTH doctors”, a day before the actual publication, damning the hospital’s reputation ahead of the facts”, he explained.
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Reacting to Mrs. Oniyelu’s allegation that the operation she had at LUTH in 2015, led to her chronic kidney disease for which she now require kidney transplant, Prof. Bode said the kidney failure is as a result of shock from the ruptured uterus which happened before she arrived LUTH. “Mrs. Oniyelu possibly developed chronic renal failure subsequent to the complication of her last pregnancy. She arrived in LUTH in shock from an already ruptured uterus and this was what triggered the renal failure during her second emergency. It was not in any way related to anything the doctors who saved her life twice did or did not do”, he said.
According to him, Mrs. Oniyelu, was rushed to LUTH twice, with two unbooked pregnancies that threatened her life. “The first occasion was on July 23, 2008. She was referref from a private hospital in her 8th month of a second pregnancy, with severe hypertention and 2+ proteinura. On admission at LUTH A&E, her blood pressure was highly elevated, gallant efforts were made to save her and the baby, through an emergency Caesarian section.
The second occasion was on June 22, 2015. Again, she was referred as a case of severe preeclampsia with drainage of liquour at 36 weeks, BP of 170/120mmHg and ‘a double fetal heart beat’. She was rushed into the theatre where she had sub-total hysterectomy due to uncontrolled haemorrhage”, he said. The LUTH management, hence implored PUNCH to retract the untrue account published.
By: Franka Osakwe
National Mirror News
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