According to The PUNCH, a man, identified simply as Joel, has lost his
life after he was allegedly refused treatment by the Isolo General
Hospital in Lagos State over fear of being a COVID-19 patient.
It was gathered that Joel slumped on Sunday while playing football and
was rushed to the hospital, but he was allegedly refused treatment on
the fear that he might be a COVID-19 patient.
A family friend of the victim, identified simply as Amaka, who narrated
the incident on Twitter, alleged that the nurses on duty claimed that
they were busy and refused to attend to Joel.
She tweeted, “The medical system failed my family friend today and
I’ll never get over it. He was said to be playing football in the field
this morning and slumped and stopped breathing, he was immediately
rushed to the Isolo general hospital in other to get attended to fast,
getting there, they refused to let him in because they said they don’t
know if he has Coronavirus!
“His family members kept begging and begging because time was running
and he wasn’t getting any better, he was still not breathing…The nurses
still insisted on not attending to him, because according to them, they
have their plates full. They had to return him to the car and resulted
in prayers.
“In tears, his elder sister still went back in and requested to see any
doctor on duty, after so much argument a doctor came out, heard the
whole story from the nurses on duty and without taking a look at him in
the car or bringing him in to check him out, the doctor then certified
him dead and asked them to transfer him to the mortuary. His mother
collapsed on the spot…This life is so unfair.
“Bro Joel like I will always call him, you will forever be missed, I
have known you to be the calmest and humble person ever since I was a
toddler, it was so unfair for you to pass on just like this, but God
knows best. Keep sleeping on till we meet again.”
When contacted, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Godwin
Akhaboa, who stated that the facility was not in the habit of rejecting
patients, said the victim was brought in dead.
“There are parameters to look at before certifying a patient dead and no
doctor will say a patient is dead without checking those parameters.
It’s never done; no nurse or doctor will do that. The patient had a
cardiac arrest on a football field and he was brought in dead,” Akhaboa
said.
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