Lagos pastor accuses hospital of damaging wife's bladder and removing her womb

PENTECOSTAL clergyman Pastor Chinedu Rockson has accused the management of Ilogbo Central Hospital in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos State of removing his wife’s womb and damaging her bladder during childbirth.

 

According to Pastor Rockson, the hospital also detained his wife over the payment of N50,000, adding that efforts to clear the bill had been frustrated by the hospital. Apparently, his wife, Chinansa, had been referred to the hospital on August 26, after she could not be delivered of the baby at the facility where she had her antenatal care.

 

Upon admission, the hospital reportedly commenced a caesarean section on the 42-year-old after her husband signed some documents to perfect the terms. However, Pastor Rockson explained that some hours into the operation, he was called into the theatre to sign another document, adding that nobody told him it was for the removal of his wife’s womb.

 

Pastor Rockson said: “They charged N200,000 for the operation and we negotiated for N150,000. I paid a deposit of N30,000 and they started the operation.

 

“They asked me to sign some papers, which I did but then some hours later, a surgeon said there had been complications and I would need to sign another document. He didn’t tell me what I was signing for or the implications but because I was in a haste to get my wife saved, I signed the document.

 

“After some time, they brought out my wife from the theatre with a pipe attached to her bladder. We became worried when we discovered that few days afterwards, they didn’t remove the pipe."

 

After a few weeks, his wife's sister who visited the victim at the hospital, asked the management why the pipe had yet to be removed. Then, the hospital was said to have opened up that Chinansa’s womb had been removed and her bladder damaged.

 

Pastor Rockson lamented that  his wife’s medical condition had worsened, adding that he could neither afford the hospital bill nor take her back home in her present condition. In a petition to the Lagos State police commissioner Fatai Owoseni, Chris Ogbedeneto, the lawyer to the Rockson family, called for an investigation into the case.

 

However, the hospital, in its reaction, denied any wrong doing in the matter, saying Chinansa was in a bad shape when she was admitted. A director at the hospital, Dr Femi Obileyi, said the mother of four could have died but for their quick intervention.