HELP! Woman “wrongly operated by LUTH doctors” needs kidney transplant
Her story reads like something from an horror movie.
Funmilola Olasinde Oniyelu was rushed to the emergency section of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, for a Ceasarean Section to deliver her of her second child in June 2015. That was the beginning of a nightmare that is yet to abate.
Not only did she lose her second child whom she waited eight years to conceive but she was also left with complications that now threaten to take life.
The 37-year-old told Punch newspapers that she lost the use of most of body three days after the “operation”.
Naturally, she was worried, but she got no explanation from the doctors until the fifth day when “the doctors told me that I would need dialysis and that they would also have to run some tests on me”.
“I was shocked. Then suddenly they told me that I had developed kidney problem. It was just like that.”
Oniyelu was still forced to approach her private doctor as the LUTH doctors refused to explain what was really going on.
“I went to my private hospital and explained to the doctor who later examined me. It was in the process of his inspection that he discovered that the doctors who performed the surgery on me at LUTH had made a terrible mistake by cutting through my navel, which according to him was not proper. He told me that in the process of conducting the surgery, the surgeons were meant to cover two holes in my stomach but failed to do so and that it was the reason why my tummy was protruding.
But she was still referred back to LUTH for a “correction” to the mistake.
Oniyelu continues to wonder how she suddenly developed kidney problem, but she’s been more rattled by the doctors reaction to the alleged mistake.
“The painful part is that they don’t even realise their error and how this has affected my life. They pretend as if all is well and have simply abandoned me to my fate. I have tried on my own to bring the attention of the hospital’s management to my plight, but so far I have not heard anything positive from them. This is not fair, I don’t deserve this type of treatment from them,”
And managing the kidney problem hasn’t been a joke. Already, Lola has lost her job as a senior staff member of a big private company in Lagos. She
“I sold my plot of land in Ejigbo, sold my vehicle, an SUV, and even my wedding ring and other jewellery just to stay alive. My mother even had to sell her land to provide some money. The sickness has drained me inside and outside.
But LUTH’s spokesman, Kelechi Otuneme, said the authorities of the hospital had not been officially notified of the matter.
He said the hospital would have done whatever they could do help her situation had they been “officially notified”.
Otuneme went on to extend an invitation to her.
“But what I think the young lady should do is to come to the office and let us discuss. If I hear her, then we can know how to go about her case,” he said.
Meanwhile, doctors say Lola needs at least N8m for a kidney transplant, an amount she can’t afford.
Her friends have put the call out for contributions to raise the said amount.
Donations should be made to Zenith Bank Account: Name: Oniyelu Funmilola Cecilia, Account number: 1005109260 (current), Branch: International Airport Road, Lagos..
