eejo:
The brilliant ones are out of the country and average ones are left behind. Expect more Deaths because the Healthcare system is in crisis.

ayandee:
May God save us from négligent doctors. With the huge amount of money the husband paid, they still could not do their job well. RIP. So sad

chiemmanuel:
I am outraged,even a fresher Will know this

Udodiri01:
These days doctors all over the world hate when you consult Google before you consult them and start teaching them there Jobs. Even young Doctors use Google as well. Most atimes Google is better than most Nigerian doctors and expensive Hospitals doesn't equate quality health care... You should find a consultant with years of experience not a smart, fancy looking Doctors that are not experienced . Justice must be served.... Na so they kill my friend wey just get Ulcer. Them tell am say na appendix while the simptoms of Ulcer where glaring....
Justice Justice Justice must be served and perpetrators brought to book

If you go to any hospital and see how they reject emergency ehh, even FMC is worse...
Just try and go and see for yourself and I promise you that you will try to avoid anything that will lead you to emergency like fighting, speeding, eating junk..... Most times I hear this kain news, it makes me want to leave this shit hole

bunto:
Well said doc.

But why didn't the hospital and the attending physicians carry the family along?
Respect!!!...until we start to respect each other's feeling.
"Do unto others as you want them to do unto you" ...
Clean, neat principle. Age long too!

chival:
Many Nigerian doctors are negligent and arrogant. If the doctors in question had been humble enough to listen to the doctor in the UK who posited she was bleeding internally, this tragedy would have been averted. I pray the family sues the hospital, not because I am vindictive, but because I hope this will serve as a deterrent to other hispitals and doctors. May God give her family the strength to bear this avoidable loss.

Tedpgrass:
R. I. P to the deceased and I pray comfort attends to the family and loved ones..

Going through the timelines, I wonder about the possibility of a severe blood transfusion reaction - which is a silent killer due to poor lab practices - given the jaundice, which only made the evolving acute DIC fatal. The other thing to consider may be the generous vasopressor use intra-operatively given the low BP. This might contribute to the AKI alongside anaesthetic gases impact on her liver.

Myomectomies are generally very bloody operations - not unusual to have a blood loss of 1-3litres depending on number and position of fibroids - so having a possible bleeding disorder such as vWF - currently underdiagnosed as not checked in routine blood tests- complicates the picture, and raises the likelihood of developing DIC.

DIC can be quite difficult to treat once the boat has left the shores.. Given the lack of FFP/ factor 7 or Cryo in Naija.


Overall, if the above were to be present, a return to theatre may not have helped.. It might only have sped up her demise - - something the surgeons might have been thinking - hence their reluctance, despite contrary overseas opinion.


Thanks
You sound knowledgeable
Most people are just being emotional.
It is painful to loss love ones but it may not be that it was intended.



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NoToPile:
Why didnt they investigate the 2nd opinion of the UK doctor?

Why?

Ijaya123:


Rules of engagement.

Why do you think even Buhari doesn’t patronise Nigerian hospitals?

Chukwuedwin1993:
So sad! Unfortunately those doctors can't give what they don't have. Most of the Medical doctors we see in the hospital are not qualified to be called Medical doctors in the first place.
Some began cutting corners from Jamb down to Medical exams. God will help us

ayandee:
May God save us from négligent doctors. With the huge amount of money the husband paid, they still could not do their job well. RIP. So sad

jaydeevaa:
2 weeks ago, I was feeling a little discomfort in my stomach area. I went to my hospital, they ran some tests including pregnancy test (me wey don dey celibate for sometimes now)...
next they did a scan, I made sure I watched the screen and I can swear that nothing was found. Next thing the result came out that I had acute appendicitis. Me?
they were already booking me for surgery, ontop small stomach pain wey don go during all their drama.
I simply declined, the 2 young doctors were obviously eager to do the surgery, they were telling me not to worry that my HMO will pay for it.
They obviously want to use me for experiment.
I just told them I would be back and I went back home before they will forget scissors in my tummy because of surgery that wasn't even necessary. I haven't felt any pain since then.
Nigeria is a failed country

PlayMaker14:
Sometimes, being stubborn is really helpful... Barely two months ago, my sister was rushed to the hospital from her place of work and the condition was so critical that required an operation, while in the theatre battling for her precious life, I was praying and sweating profusely that she would come back....

While this was going on, I moved to the female ward of the hospital to get her mantle which she kept on her bag and I saw one of the female patient who's having difficulty to speak and breathe well trying to get the attention of a nurse putting on a white earphone blasting to music from her mobile device.

The female patient was pointing to the pulse clip which the nurse mistakenly removed while arranging her oxygen cylinder.

I had to forcefully remove the useless earphone from her ears and shouted at her to concentrate.... She wanted to misbehave by trying to shout back at me, I had to show her that there are levels to madness by destroying the earphone. I did wrong there, but I hate negligence.... She reported me to the naval personnel there and after everything, they ask me to take it easy and be calm.

What brighten my mood that day was that my sister came out of that health challenge and the doctors gave her full attention anytime she complained.

I don't tolerate negligence at work place.

DECLAN2015:



Were u there
People just listen to one sided story and make conclusion.

ghettochild:


He spoke with Drs. Asemota, Iwuh and the medical
director Dr Oshinowo. He stated expressly that he was of the opinion that she had severe internal bleeding and needed to be moved back to the operating theatre for the bleeding to be arrested immediately. Premier team however ignored his
advice.
Just imagine how quacky our Nigerian doctors are...
After the surgery they never attended to her personally to ask the patient questions n figure out where the problem could be...
Another doctor even called them to tell them what the problem is n yet they didn't start to operate her immediately..
Plus i notice a trend...
You pay before they even commence anything.
Those gynecologists all need to have their licenses revoked

ppeessuu:


Thanks sis and God bless u too.

I have issues with my kidneys and postrate and I also have chronic ulcer.

joyandfaith:


If internal bleeding is due to dic, moving him to theatre without arresting dic would be wrong.
I am suspecting dic, a complication of myomectomy that may be precipitated by intra or postoperative blood transfusion.
An haematologist should have reviewed the blood film before and after surgery and INR should have been monitored.
Abd USS should have been done when she complained about abdominal pain. Though ct scan is ideal.

therealMcCain:


I will advise you go for a second opinion.

Appendicitis is not something you play with especially if it ruptures.

DECLAN2015:


Another error
Inferiority complex
*There is nothing spectacular about anyone PRACTISING abroad*
If can practise here as chaotic as it is
U can practise anyway.

Jman06:
When some of us advocate for overhaul of our healthcare system, especially her management, it is because we care for a better and healthy nation. A system that we can be proud to bequeath to our unborn generations.

It is not like we can not join the bad system and make good money from it, but doing that will be akin to destroying the world rather than building it.

Anybody who had been following my posts on this forum will agree that I have been a great advocate of a revamped healthcare system in Nigeria. But some people may think that we are chasing clout or trying to monopolize the system. That is not the case!


Let's fix our health sector now!

heed101:
Nigerian hospital capability is in doubt these days. I will advise people reading this to always go for hospital with elderly doctors. I almost had the same experience with Federal killing centre(FMC) Owo. Bunch of inexperienced interns toying with people's life. It took a private hospital to help remove my wife's fibroid after she was neglected after delivery and was allowed to suffer prolapse fibroid in her virgina area. Let us petition so that the hospital will be brought to justice.
http://chng.it/PjwLVdJ2cr

fostermd:
It's sad this had to occur.When her Blood pressure dipped after surgery, her pulse would have been rapid and faint.This should have indicated an internal bleeding.
An ultrasound scan or even an abdominal tap would have confirmed the bleeding which required taking her back into theatre to secure haemostasis and stop the bleeding. Many Nigerian doctors lack index of suspicion in practice,rather they kept transfusing her.This should even should have made them suspicious of significant leak.They even rebuffed the 2nd opinion by the family gynaecologist in the UK.
Many doctors in Nigeria act as if they know it all.I am.a doctor in Europe and we work as a multidisciplinary team and get input from all.members of the team.

The hospital and the doctors need the doctor need to be investigated and sanctioned by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.The doctors certainly are liable to gross professional malpractice and their practice falls short of the expected standard.

Calitoscassius:
This is the problem, the hospital was negligent.. what has God got to do with it? Everything crime in commited in Nigeria rather than hodling the culprits responsible all i hear is leave it for God. Someone is supposed to be held responsible! Why did God not save her? If really God exists.

Udodiri01:
These days doctors all over the world hate when you consult Google before you consult them and start teaching them there Jobs. Even young Doctors use Google as well. Most atimes Google is better than most Nigerian doctors and expensive Hospitals doesn't equate quality health care... You should find a consultant with years of experience not a smart, fancy looking Doctors that are not experienced . Justice must be served.... Na so they kill my friend wey just get Ulcer. Them tell am say na appendix while the simptoms of Ulcer where glaring....
Justice Justice Justice must be served and perpetrators brought to book

If you go to any hospital and see how they reject emergency ehh, even FMC is worse...
Just try and go and see for yourself and I promise you that you will try to avoid anything that will lead you to emergency like fighting, speeding, eating junk..... Most times I hear this kain news, it makes me want to leave this shit hole

Tedpgrass:


Hello ma'am..
Howdy..hope the Sunday is going along well

For the lingo.. ermmm.. Google is your friend

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Derula:
May God help us in this country with all these quack doctors in our various health institutions. I had a dog bite around 8months ago and the cut was a deep one on my leg by one street dog. Immediately after the incident happened, i quickly googled the risks associated with dog bite and I realized it is a serious health issues that calls for immediate medical attention. In my Google search, I got to know that I will be placed on antirabies drugs for a specified number of days with a laid day time interval and together with one immunoglobulin drug that will only be taken once.The following morning, i rushed to one general hospital in my area in Lagos to present my case to the doctor on duty.After i explained my situation to the doctor, he gave me wrong prescription of antirabies medication and he never recommended the immunoglobulin with it. I told him i read it somewhere that the antirabies drugs must be administered on day 0,3 7,14 and so on and he was shouting on me that he knows more than I do. In the course of our argument,some of his doctor colleagues attending to other patients beside us intervened and I saw one of them googling the issue with her phone and after they might have confirmed their fellow doctor was wrong,they call him to one corner and talk to him.By the time he returned, he wrote the normal prescription that I had earlier suggested.