A 13-year-old student of the Command Secondary School in Suleja, near Abuja, narrowly escaped death after being treated with the wrong medication by a nurse at the school clinic.

SaharaReporters learned that the incident occurred on April 30 when the student sought medical treatment for having a high body temperature.

After the drugs were administered to the student, he began to develop rashes all over his body. He also noticed that his lips were swollen and his eyes were red.

The situation worsened when the nurse abandoned him at the school’s clinic for three days without making an effort to ameliorate his condition.

The young student was then sent to Kubwa General Hospital in Abuja to recuperate from the near-fatal experience.

SaharaReporters gathered that school authorities called the student’s parents to inform them of the development, but by the time his parents arrived at the school, his condition had worsened to the point that he needed to be rushed to the hospital.

The parents were told that their son had been given Augmentin and Paracetamol tablets, but tests conducted at the hospital revealed his reaction was caused by sulfur, contradicting the claim that he was given Augmentin.

A team of medical experts from National Agency for Foods, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), who visited the boy at the hospital, reportedly corroborated the hospital’s findings, saying the negative reaction could have been avoided if the school had acted expediently.

Meanwhile, the commandant and management of the Command Secondary School have remained indifferent to the plight of their ailing student, who is still lying ill at the pediatric department of the hospital at the time of filing this report on Thursday. The parents have accused the school authorities of dishonesty over the drugs administered at their ward.

“We have been left completely to ourselves,” one of them said.

When SaharaReporters visited the Suleja school, however, the commandant was said to be unavailable for comments. But the vice principal, who declined giving her name, said she was not competent to speak on the matter.

“I am a civil servant and only the commandant is best qualified to speak to the media,” she told our correspondent.

Further efforts at the office of the Regiment Sergeant Major (RSM) revealed that authorities at the school would not grant media interviews until the student’s parents could establish a case against the school.

The matron of the school, Lt. Colonel B.S. Omoge, however, admitted after being prodded by SaharaReporters that the boy had been administered Fansidar and Paracetamol, arguing that the commandant was notified of his condition, although she also said she had earlier ordered nurses at the school’s clinic to evacuate drugs like Fansidar, Augmentin, and Laridox.

The parents continue to seek redress over the authorities’ neglect of their ward for three days, as well as lying that that their son was administered with Augmentin and failing to contact them for his medical history before administering the drugs.

Findings by SaharaReporters from medical experts revealed that the teenager had suffered a medical condition called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), which is a rare but serious condition arising from a severe reaction to taking certain drugs. The reaction causes the skin to blister and peel off and also affects the mucus membrane while blisters form inside the body, making it difficult to eat and urinate.

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Nigeria, everyday na funny funny news. Each day you open the page of newspaper na death death, negative news nawaoh. Am I d first to comment? Wow... May fire and thunder locate all those who brought APC government to us.

What is this country turning to bikonu?
see as them roast person pikin like suya!

This is a drug reaction which can happen to anybody. It doesn't mean that the wrong medication was administered rather the student in question reacts adversely to the medication given to him. Most people don't know that they reacts to some drugs eg not everybody reacts to chloroquine or sulphur etc. Some may have mild reaction while in rare cases it maybe life threatening like in this kid.

This looks like stevens-johnson syndrome. May God heal the little boy.

Cc:lalasticlala, mynd44

TOO BAD

wow, I hope and pray he recover, look terrible and the pains he must be going through.

Stephen Johnson syndrome caused by adverse drug reaction. The nurse might be innocent.

Fork!

ha!

Fake people every where, no wonder Buhari always travel to London for medical check up, let him not support Arsenal again o to avoid another heart attack

Jesu!


What is this?!!! !! !! !! !!




Lawyers don hammer!

oh..!! I remembered when I reacted to septrim tablet too, it wasn't funny at all. But I thank God it leaves No permanent damage on my skin.

I'm sure The boy will be Alright.

She don go give am sulphur based medicine...

Kid just has an allergic reaction to it...

JESUS!!!

THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE. BUYERS KICK OFF....

Sue the school,sue the nurse and sue the doctor

what is this

Hahahahahahahah .... them to whip her ass

But people have been warned against using Fansidar now.

OMG! wish u quick recovery

[This is a drug reaction which can happen to anybody. It doesn't mean that the wrong medication was administered rather the student in question reacts adversely to the medication given to him. Most people don't know that they reacts to some drugs eg not everybody reacts to chloroquine or sulphur etc. Some may have mild reaction while in rare cases it maybe life threatening like in this kid.

i concur
my body reacts to sulphur
so it can happen to anyone

SirVintageCock:
This is a drug reaction which can happen to anybody. It doesn't mean that the wrong medication was administered rather the student in question reacts adversely to the medication given to him. Most people don't know that they reacts to some drugs eg not everybody reacts to chloroquine or sulphur etc. Some may have mild reaction while in rare cases it maybe life threatening like in this kid.

A reaction is a good reason to abandon the boy for 3 days?

How about introducing a neutralizer/stabilizer?

Your talk no hold water

May God heal him IJN.

Amen.

The last time I checked, nurses are not to admister drugs to a patient without the prescription of the doctor/pharmacist.

ehya! get well soon

When the foundation is destroyed, what can the righteous do?

When the Educational Foundation is destroyed, these and more is what you expect.

Our Educational system is in shambles. Incompetent graduates roaming everywhere.

All they want is CERTIFICATE!!!!

And their parents don't care about competency, they want certificates too. So when they attend their village meeting, they join the league of old fools to scream "I HAVE 5 GRADUATES" you think its easy?

IT IS A PRODUCT OF A ROTTEN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

It is only a hypocrite that will come here and say otherwise.

I schooled here in Nigeria and Abroad too.

The system is messed up. Unqualified Lecturers who openly encourage cheating and sorting.

Lecturers who encourage sex for grades.

Lecturers who doesn't even know what they are lecturing.... They lack both theoretical and practical knowledge.

Lecturers who threaten to fail you if you don't do their bidding and many times carry out their threats.

I pity and weep for my dearly beloved country.

EVEN IF ITS A DRUG REACTION, THEN THE NURSE SHOULD HAVE ACTED SWIFTLY TO MANAGE IT>>>>

This is just a drug reaction, the drug was not administered wrongly..

wish you quick recovery bro

the will recover by God's grace