#SaveMayowa: “We didn’t refer Mayowa abroad” – LUTH

Miss Mayowa Ahmed who has been embroiled in the middle of a controversy over a fund raising campaign is well known to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), but for slightly different reasons.

She is an old patient of the hospital who has been on treatment for another condition, the teaching hospital said in a statement issued to clarify it’s role in the fund raising controversy.

According to the statement, Mayowa was admitted into the private wing of LUTH on Monday, 25th July, 2016 “with a history and clinical features of an intra-abdominal mass”.

It added that the hospital was in the process of conducting a series of fresh tests to confirm the tentative diagnosis of an abdominal malignancy arrived at by three different specialists when the family requested to fly the patient abroad.

“The family, however requested to fly Miss Ahmed outside the country barely 24 hours after her admission in LUTH, thus stalling all the planned investigations meant to arrive at a definitive diagnosis.

“We were able to transfuse her with much-needed blood only after lots of persuasion where the family was told point blank that it was risky for her to travel by air, given her low blood count.

“Today is the 3rd day after admission and a definitive diagnosis has not yet been made while the relations insist on their own to carry her abroad. ”

“LUTH has only dealt with Miss Ahmed and her relations throughout her stay and not with any other third party.

“Contrary to any circulating information, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital did not refer Miss Ahmed overseas and this Institution is not involved with any fund-raising activity or activist on her behalf,”the statement read.

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