An alarm has been raised after a 4-year-old girl lost her leg due to wrong diagnosis by a hospital in Zaria, Kaduna state. According to Ab Sadiq, after the wrong diagnosis from the hospital, the little girl had blood transfused via a vein in her leg which made it to swell as she eventually lost it.

Read the unfortunate story shared online.

Rukayya, a 4 year old girl from Zaria fell sick and was taken to a Hospital in Zaria. (I am withholding the name of the hospital for some reasons). After running some preliminary laboratory tests, Rukayya's parents were told their daughter was a sickler,that she has malaria.They treated her,and they left for home.

When Rukayya's condition didn't improve, her parents took her back to the hospital &was admitted immediately. She was transfused with blood through a vein in her leg, because according to them, they could not find any in her hands.

After the transfusion, she was discharged to go home. Later on, the leg became swollen and Rukkaya had to be taken back to the hospital. Rukkaya's parents were told to take her back home ,elevate her legs and administer ice therapy.

When that didn't work, Rukayya was taken back to the hospital again where the parents met the hostility of the staff on duty. But they were eventually attended to; they examined the affected leg. and when they realized they could not handle the case anymore, they were referred to ABU Teaching Hospital Shika-Zaria.

On getting to A.B.U.T.H, Rukkaya was immediately taken to the emergency room and the doctors after examination told her parents that Rukayya's leg needs to be amputated immediately due to the infection that is spreading in her leg.

Rukayya eventually lost a leg.

Further tests carried out at Shika revealed Rukayya was not even a sickler,and the peripheral Hospital misdiagnosed her from the start.

GIWAC has filed a petition on behalf of Rukkaya to the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Commissioner of police, Speaker state house of assembly, the elected members representing her constituency (Basawa constituency)in the state assembly and the chairman of her local government (Sabon gari).


Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2017/02/4-year-old-girl-loses-her-leg-due-to.html

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What an irony ,

That hospital should closed, arrest the doctor, and the welfare of that little girl is in their hands


God will see her throught AMEN




All I want to say is THANK YOU LORD

So will this justify Buhari's medical trips?

This is sad
I just hope the girl's parent will sue the hospital for whatever it's worth
Na this kind thing dey make me no blame Politicians too much were dey go abroad for common headache treatment
I no trust Nigerian doctors at all
Even na me get money
Na UK i for dey go treat my malaria like Buhari

tell us d name of d hospital pls. thank God i made fp today. one day i wil b there.

Sweet Jesus, that is so Gross
Now you wonder why politicians fly abroad for treatment

Unprofessional discharge of delicate duties requires every form of disengagement

What nonsense write up. You are neither helping the family of the girl nor the people reading the story by hiding the identity of the hospital. You can't expose the hospital and let people do the judging and let the people aware of their atrocities and probably be sanctioned. So what is the aim of posting this? Who knows may be it was due to negligence of the parents on the poor girl ? I wish her quick recovery though, but for hiding the hospital name, that is stupid of the writer. Name the doctor and the hospital involve, let them defend themselves.

Jeffboi:
What an irony ,

That hospital should closed, arrest the doctor, and the welfare of that little girl is in their hands


God will see her throught AMEN




All I want to say is THANK YOU LORD

The man/woman running the workshop may not be a doctor, many CHEWs run clinics in the north

hungryboy:
This is sad
I just hope the girl's parent will sue the hospital for whatever it's worth
Na this kind thing dey make me no blame Politicians too much were dey go abroad for common headache treatment
I no trust Nigerian doctors at all
Even na me get money
Na UK i for dey go treat my malaria like Buhari

There are very good hospitals in Nigeria, with standard equipment....

Politicians are just greedy.... Aso Rock has its own standard hospital, not to talk of national hospital Abuja...

Buhari that is there now, no be one story to another

Stella wey go do tummy tuck, na Nigeria she die

All we need to do is to find the workshops called clinics, close them down and arrest the quacks running the place.....

priceaction:
What nonsense write up. You are neither helping the family of the girl nor the people reading the story by hiding the identity of the hospital. You can't expose the hospital and let people do the judging and let the people aware of their atrocities and probably be sanctioned. So what is the aim of the posting this? Who knows may be it was due to negligence of the parents on the poor girl ? I wish her quick recovery though, but for hiding the hospital name, that is stupid of the writer.

You are right but wrong.....

I'm sure the "hospital" would have been closed down now, but the "doctor" still has to tell us his own side, before we can finally expose his name Sef....

One thing I can deduce from this is:
1. The hospital operates with quacks (auxiliaries aka nurse mu-yi-wa) as no one was there to monitor till it got worse.
2. Quacks in their laboratory (SLT, microbiology or any other groups). A medical lab scientist knows how important a genotype or malaria test is and because of litigation will not fabricate results. The ABUTH MLS have confirmed the initial diagnosis came from a quack (who issues a HbSS to someone who isnt a sickler - quack)
3. They engage the services of CHEW as these people are neither doctors nor nurses nor scientists as their training doesn't provide them to carry out such clinical practices.

Many private hospitals because they don't want to pay real professionals put the lives of innocent people at the mercy of quacks all in the name of cheap labour.

I believe if proper investigation is carried out its either the doctor is a Quack or they operate with quack nurses (auxiliary). It's very certain whoever gave out that result was a quack (they should arrest that one first) and continue with others.

Please patients needs to know their rights always demand for qualified professionals before they touch you be it doctors, nurses, the Medical laboratory scientists, pharmacists etc. Quacks kill more than boko haram

It's high time the various councils (MDCN, MLSCN, NMCN, PCN etc) start doing their functions and not be there just to collect money for license renewals.

This just goes to show that nigeria is indeed a territory of systemic problems. Every sector in this country is near comatose.
I weep for this country.
As for the little girl, i wish her a speedy recovery. Due to human errors that could have been averted, you are a now an amputee. Please forgive NIGERIA.

Lagusta:


You are right but wrong.....

I'm sure the "hospital" would have been closed down now, but the "doctor" still has to tell us his own side, before we can finally expose his name Sef....

That is part of what am saying. How can we know the doctors name without knowing the hospital name? Besides, what if it is a negligence from the parents ,probably using herbs to treat the un diagnosed ailments and when it went out of hand, they took the child to hospital and later complications? Only the doctor and the hospital can give a full details of the ailments and what happened after, so by hiding their identity doesnt make sense to me.

Just curious though.
(1)If she was misdiagnosed,blood transfusion per se cannot be d cause of her losing that leg
(2)Somebody receives blood not necessarily because that person is SS,but because there has been a reduction in the blood parameters,eg blood percentage.
(3)Abuth shud be legally bound to make its own findings known,to get to the root of the matter.
(4)While wrong diagnoses is sometimes fatal,wrong blood transfusion itself will affect d whole individual,rather than a particular body part.
My assumption is this,that the unfortunate girl lost her leg because the transfusion was into a tissue,rather than a vein.Also no aseptic measures were adhered to.That is whoever tried securing an IV access was not competent enough to do so,aside poor aseptic standards and left d iv set in a tissue.The tissue continued swelling and became infected,while transfusion was ongoing,gangrene set in and there was no other choice left than amputation to save d girls life.
No matter what,somebody or somepeople not competent or qualified was allowed to carry out a procedure that ordinarily shud not be fatal.
The girl needs compensation and d personel involved sanctioned after d fuller details of what really happened from d home,Ist facility,back at home,and finally at ABUTH,is established.

Hmmm

Nairalanders and the horror stories that make FP.

Kaduna again? Kidnapping Germans now this one also?
Who nose wettin dey happen for Kaduna?

See hw dem spoil dis little body...

this is send buhari to London

Lagusta:


The man/woman running the workshop may not be a doctor, many CHEWs run clinics in the north

Exactly my thoughts.
In Nassarawa state,it is easier for Community health workers,Nurses,including d quacks to open hospitals than doctors.
They stay there and complicate ppl's health everyday.

Sad. May God provide her a helper.

this is why i send buhari to London

Wow so terrible...bt wait ooo hv u Eva see a dog wit 4'o clock EYE wow suprice now I saw 1 lollol

this is sad

Allah why na......

oh my God.....

people do experiment even with other peoples life

now see