By the time the ailment was diagnosed on her return to Nigeria, she needed an emergency operation — but the hospital did not have life support and she died in the process, according to her parents.
Kikaose Ebiye Onyibe, the daughter of Magnus Onyibe — former commissioner of information in Delta State who writes a regular column for TheCable, who was a second year law undergraduate at the University of Birmingham, died on Wednesday at Gold Cross Hospital, Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, following an unsuccessful surgery to remove a ruptured appendix.
The parents said in the obituary announcement;
“Kikaose had been complaining of lower abdominal pain since October last year and had been visiting a GP in Birmingham, UK, where her school is located,”
“The GP failed to diagnose the ailment correctly despite several visits in many months. Instead of conducting a scan to identify her ailment, they gave her minor pain killers whenever she visited the surgery (clinic).”The UK National Health Service (NHS) — which gives free medical service — is notorious for its budget cuts which force doctors to pay minimal attention to conditions not considered life-threatening.
Kikaose was only diagnosed properly with ruptured appendix when she arrived Nigeria on April 11 and she did a scan.
That hospital in the UK should be sued for involuntary man slaughter. If it were in Nigeria now we would say our doctors don't know their onions, how can this even slip by the doctors that have been examining her? Them just kill this fine queen. Too bad.
ReplyDeleteWow.... The doctor just commit serious blunder... Too bad
ReplyDeletesad one..this kind youg girl..
ReplyDeleteMay her soul rest peace
Very bad that doctor should be given a life jail
ReplyDeleteAwwwwwwww, may she rest in peace. Amen.....
ReplyDeleteNever expected such to have happened from hospitals abroad, thought this kind of things happens only here in Nigeria
That's really sad
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