The management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has commenced moves to pacify the parents of the boy with the missing intestines, Adebola Akin-Bright, thegazellenews.com has exclusively gathered.
This medium learnt that officials of the tertiary health institution have contacted parents of the deceased teenager offering to offset his burial expenses.
While this was going on, thegazellenews.comalso learnt that the father of the deceased has collected the films of the scan carried out on him at LASUTH and the scan clearly showed that the intestines were present in the boy when the scan was carried out.
“The scan was done on 19 June, 2023, three days after Adebola was admitted at LASUTH. He was admitted on 17 June, 2023. On Tuesday, 26 September, 2023, Debola’s father collected the scan report and film and it was confirmed that the intestines were present,” sources close to the parents of the deceased told our correspondent.
This has further exonerated the private doctor who first carried out surgery on the boy before he was refered to LASUTH and further questioned the decision of the Lagos State House of Assembly to seek for the arrest of the doctor.
In the wake of public outcry over the death of Debola, the state Assembly had set up a panel of five members to probe the causes of the incident.
However, members of the public were surprised that the Assembly panel did not even contain any medical personnel while the panel members were alleged to have reduced the interrogation to ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ session for the private doctor while allowing the LASUTH doctors to explain their roles.
However, concrete facts and figures have shown that LASUTH cannot be exonerated in the whole matter. Many have described the action of the Assembly as biased, ignorant and unjust.
