Baby Gbadeyan's death: Ayodele Medical Centre releases statement

Ayodele Medical Centre has reacted to reports that went round last week about a 6 months old baby who died in their hospital on Feb 6th. The family of the boy blamed the hospital for his death and alleged that they seized his corpse and put it outside near a dustbin. Below is a statement from the hospital...

 
 The management of AYODELE MEDICAL CENTRE views with great concern the false publication making the round in both the social and print media since Monday, the 8th February 2016 on the unfortunate demise of Master Oluwamurewa Gbadeyan on 6th February 2016.

We share in the grief of the parents, Mr. & Mrs. Olabode Gbadeyan, and pray to the almighty God to grant them the fortitude to bear the great loss.

The publications in the media since the past days have however been malicious. We do not credit the stories to anyone in particular as we understand the environment in which we live. At the risk of sounding immodest, we would ordinarily not have had any need to send a response but for the negative impression the news report has generated, together with the fear and great concerns expressed by our clients, associates and patients. We are therefore constrained to set the records straight, as follows:


1.        The patient was brought to the hospital at 6.05pm on Saturday 6th February 2016 with fever, vomiting, diarrhea and convulsion. He was also found to be pale and in coma and was registered as Master Oluwamurewa Gbadeyan. His parents introduced themselves as Mr. & Mrs. Olabode Gbadeyan of No. 12 Bosede Akinlaja Street, Giwa-Oke Aro, Ogun State, and were as such issued with a family card.


2.        The patient was immediately admitted without a demand for deposit or any preconditions whatsoever, except to have a formal registration process completed by his parents. Two Doctors were on hand to examine him at the time he was presented.


3.        Apart from the state of his condition as earlier explained, preliminary investigation revealed that the patient had been ill for about a week, and had been taken to a couple of hospitals prior to being brought to our Hospital.

4.        Patient was diagnosed with Sepsis and was immediately commenced on intravenous antibiotics, intravenous fluid and other medications. He was also supported with Oxygen, but regrettably patient passed away at 9.45pm (three hours forty minutes after he was admitted).

5.        Although, there were occasional public power outages while the patient was on admission in our facility, this was not the cause of the patient’s demise. The demise was also not as a result of an alleged delay in restoring power to our facility. It is evidently clear that we have two serviceable and functioning power generating sets (150kva and 85kva respectively) on standby. It took less than two minutes on each occasion to restore power to the facility.

6.        With respect to the allegation of the patient’s remains being improperly kept, we state categorically that it is not in our character to dehumanize even the death. The remains of the patient were in a dignifying manner preserved. Although the photographs shown in the media depicts otherwise, they were taken while our staff were taking the remains by trolley to the corpse preservation room pending removal to a morgue by his parents. Our staff had innocently allowed the parents and their friends take photographs of the patient as they claimed they needed to do so for records and proper identification sake when they returned for the remains. It is however unfortunate that the gesture is being used against the Hospital. Please also note that one of the photographs showing the patient seated on a lap (while still alive) was not taken in our facility.

7.        For emphasis, the patient was registered as Oluwamurewa Gbadeyan. We do not know him as baby Adewunmi, neither do we know his parents as Mr. & Mrs. Adewunmi.

Ayodele Medical Centre remains committed to its duty of providing diligent and professional healthcare services to all its patients. We shall continue to practice our trade professionally, ethically and diligently.
Once again, we commiserate with the parents of our patient on the loss.
Dated the 9th February 2016.
Thank you.
Management