Controversy has arisen over the dying of a 29-yr-antique graduate of the college of Bauchi, Kolawole Idowu, on the Lagos nation university coaching sanatorium, Ikeja.
own family individuals of the victim stated even though Kolawole died at LASUTH, they believed his situation changed into worsened by way of docs at the Ikeja medical Centre, a personal facility on Allen road, Ikeja.
PUNCH Metro collected that Kolawole, who concluded his kids provider in Lagos someday in April, took unwell some days afterwards.
He became stated to have complained of "teary eyes and body pains" and had long past to the Ikeja clinical Centre, which turned into the own family hospital. It become accrued that like other children of the family, he became born on the sanatorium.
After a health practitioner allegedly recommended some malaria pills and later an eye drop, the scenario turned into said to have worsened, leading to his admission to the hospital.
Our correspondent turned into told that the hospital later stated he become manifesting symptoms of a intellectual illness and started treating him for "psychosis."
whilst there has been no improvement, the health center changed into stated to have referred him to LASUTH, in which he went right into a coma and later died on the extensive Care Unit.
The sufferer's brother, Kunle, informed PUNCH Metro that his overdue brother's clinical circumstance became not dealt with nicely at the scientific centre, adding that he changed into given some injections which affected his fitness.
Kunle alleged that the injections made him to misbehave, saying each time the effect of the injections wore off, he would regain his senses, run again domestic and beg to be taken away from the medical institution.
He defined that when he (Kunle) located that their maternal grandparents were adamant on retaining him (Kolawole) on the sanatorium, he challenged them and broke some belongings in the residence, which caused his arrest and detention.
He stated, "The illness started out on the give up of April, about every week after his children provider. i'm a baby-kisser and i used to be walking a marketing campaign to end up a councillor at that length. Kola complained that he were having burning sensations all over his frame and his eyes have been teary. I advised him to head for a lab test, however he stated he would go to our own family clinic. He went to the health center where he became given an eye drop, which he began reacting adversely to.
"He went again to the medical centre and he turned into instructed that he had malaria. The doctor prescribed a malaria drug for him. but, he started reacting negatively once more to the drug. That became when the medical doctor said he changed into having suits of delirium and showing symptoms of dementia."
He defined that the physician insisted on admitting Kolawole, however he objected, adding that the grandparents believed the physician and supported the circulate.
On the first week of his admission, Kunle said he become no longer happy with his brother's remedy, however the clinic confident him that Kolawole wished rest.
He stated that he became involved whilst Kolawole's pals, who additionally visited the medical institution, made similar observations. He stated he requested for the victim's switch to another health center.
Kunle stated he met the grandparents and requested for permission to move his brother from the hosipital, but they objected due to the family's long-time dating with the hospital.
"i was irritated with the clinic due to the fact they stored saying various things. First, it turned into delirium, then stress. They kept giving him injections. My brother changed into usually pronouncing he wanted to depart the health facility. as soon as he stated that, they could say he had began again and provide him greater injections.
"I told them that my brother become not mentally sick; he wanted to go away the sanatorium due to the fact they didn't recognise what they were doing," Kunle stated.
He added that because of his growing political engagement, the time he had for Kolawole became limited.
PUNCH Metro learnt that there has been a crisis in the residence on may also 17, 2017, while past due Kolawole ran domestic from the health facility.
The grandparents had been suggested to have known as a physician on the medical centre to include an injection for psychiatric patients to calm him down, a suggestion rejected via Kunle.
"i used to be angry because on every occasion they provide him the injection, he lost his senses. They (grandparents) asked me to close up. for two weeks, that changed into what they informed me. i used to be angry and that i could not take it again because I knew the physician become on the manner with the injection. I misplaced manipulate and started shouting that they should not supply him any drug.
"He turned into continually coming domestic each time he realised that they had been now not treating him properly. but my grandparents would take him again and he would obey in order that he might no longer seem like a disobedient toddler. The injection became killing him.
"That day, they requested the residence assist to lock the door. due to the fact I couldn't sit down down and watch him take another injection, I broke the door and left the house," he added.
PUNCH Metro learnt that a few spouse and children alerted the police of Kunle's action and he changed into detained for a day.
Kunle stated after that incident, he turned into instructed that his brother's condition had annoyed and he had been taken to LASUTH.
He defined that Kolawole become admitted to the psychiatric ward of LASUTH, based on a referral letter from the clinical centre.
Kunle said his brother became positioned within the equal ward with patients who had severe intellectual troubles and he spent approximately 10 days in the ward.
"He was later taken to the ICU wherein he spent two months and struggled to stay. but the damage were completed due to the fact my brother had spent two weeks on the medical centre, 10 days at LASUTH psychiatric ward earlier than he collapsed and become taken to the ICU.
"a few specialists at LASUTH later examined him and stated it changed into now not a psychotic case. They moved him to the ICU because he turned into at the factor of loss of life. I watched over him at the ICU for the 2 months.
"At one point, the seizure he changed into having stopped, and i idea he become getting better, now not knowing my brother changed into dying," he said.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the Idowu own family comprised 4 kids - Kunle, Kolawole, Adeniyi and a younger sister who's inside the united states of america.
The children's father died while they have been younger, while their mom, Mrs. Mopelola Osiyemi, travelled to the us in 2016.
Adeniyi, who studied within the Cyprus college, got a process in Dubai wherein he's now based totally.
Kunle and Kola, however, stayed with their grandparents at their family residence on Bolanle close, Allen street, now not a long way from the Ikeja clinical Centre.
Adeniyi, who said he turned into on holiday in Nigeria, advised PUNCH Metro that he was bowled over that his brother, who laughed with him at some stage in their time together, abruptly lost manipulate of himself and went right into a coma.
whilst insisting that Kolawole was not a drug addict, he said he had organized with an Iranian doctor to move him in a foreign country, however changed into instructed that the brother have to come out of a coma before he could be flown out.
He said, "The doctors at LASUTH told us that he turned into no longer mad; that he had micro organism which in all likelihood were given into his mind. They stated the medical practitioners at the first sanatorium messed him up. I known as a physician pal, who said my brother had an contamination referred to as meninges and it affected his mind. She said antibiotics may want to have cured him.
"each day he spent at the ICU value us N50,000. And that changed into apart the N100,000 on tablets and another N500,000 on a selected test. We spent millions of naira on treatment.
"when my brother died, we had to supply out some of the drugs he didn't use. but my eldest brother, Kunle, determined to carry domestic a particular one encouraged for us from the scientific centre, known as Haloperidol. once I googled it, i found that my brother manifested the precise symptoms stated inside the abuse of the drug, consisting of stiffness and coma, earlier than he died."
PUNCH Metro became told that the deceased, who marked his twenty ninth birthday in coma on June 23, became a graduate in 2013 after reading Accounting.
Our correspondent become informed that he died around 4pm on July 1, 2017, at the ICU of LASUTH.
"My brother, Kolawole, has by no means slept at a medical institution before. We need the health center investigated. We need the government and the Nigerian scientific association to intrude," Olaniyi said.
The victim's mom, Mopelola, in an emotional message she broadcast on Whatsapp some days to her son's death, alleged that the physician who handled him apologised to the circle of relatives.
"To God be the distinction; this is very said. but I ought to tell it. I gave beginning to Kolawole 29 years in the past on the same medical institution that administered wrong remedy that has placed him in a existence-threatening situation. The health practitioner that commenced his remedy went to my elderly father of 86 years to apologise, confessing that he gave Kolawole a incorrect medicine.
"I consider that is the beginning of Kolawole's recuperation method. What can i do at this degree? we are spending millions on clinic treatment in an intensive care unit because of one little mistake that shouldn't have occurred. God, you realize excellent. Kolawole have to stay to testify in your glory," the message study.
She told our correspondent on the phone after the son's death that the hospital must be held responsible for the alleged mistake.
She stated, "He was never diagnosed. I don't know my son as a drug addict. I left Nigeria 11 months in the past; are they saying he took to drugs within that duration, a son i've known for a long time? They ought to have performed proper assessments on him. we've got spent millions of naira simply due to one mistake.
"They insisted on treating him even when they lacked the competence due to the money they wanted to make from my family."
LASUTH's response
PUNCH Metro had a meeting with the leader clinical Director of LASUTH, Prof. Adewale Oke, and some top principal officers of the authorities medical institution.
Oke stated there was a limit to the records that would be released because of the ethics of the medical profession.
He cited that Kolawole changed into tested and treated with the aid of experts.
The health center's consultant psychiatrist, Dr Atilola Olayinka, said he was the primary to have contact with Kolawole after he turned into brought to the medical institution.
He said, "He came in as an emergency case and we didn't have any other statistics to make us doubt the reality that it became most possibly an ongoing psychiatric illness. On that foundation, we obtained him to manipulate him for the infection.
"within the direction of treatment,we,but,saw different signs and symptoms that did now not jell with a natural case of psychiatric illness. We investigated and referred to as in our scientific team to check it with us. whilst his stage of cognizance changed into taking place, we had to flow him to the ICU."
The consultant scientific officer, one Dr Bamisile, said he determined fissures, along with epileptic suits, neck stiffness and running fever.
"We saw that he could have a few natural troubles, apart from a useful psychosis. day after today, I went to peer him and determined that his attention changed into going. I examined and saw that there had been other scientific issues. He become jerking and had epileptic seizures. His neck was also stiff. He had going for walks fever at a time," he delivered.
He explained that the deceased also had fissures and inflammation of the brain, "which will be caused by a few organism."
At this factor, Bamisile said he asked that a microbiologist and a professor of neurology attend to Kolawole.
LASUTH's representative neurologist, Dr Olaitan Ojelabi, stated the 29-year-antique appeared "febrile, with restive signs and symptoms and other signs and symptoms, pointing at a case of meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the linings of the brain)."
"This condition may be because of bacteria. To deal with this, we upgraded his antibiotics, amongst other remedies," he delivered.
The consultant Anaesthesia, Dr A.A. Majekodunmi, stated the victim became later placed on a lifestyles-support system.
"After approximately weeks in the ICU, he commenced having troubles with respiration and we had to placed him on a ventilator to help him breathe. We repeated some investigations to discover what changed into incorrect with him. The own family turned into aware of the diagnosis, and that they have been conscious when it become getting worse. We saw that he become not responding to a few medications that we gave him. in the end, we had to put him on a supportive medicinal drug for his blood pressure until he sooner or later died. He became on existence aid for about a month before he handed on," she stated.
A professor of Neurology, Prof. Yomi Ogun, expressed unhappiness at the dying of Kolawole, announcing a partial post-mortem revealed the deceased's mind was swollen.
He stated that no one ought to inform what clearly killed him "till the post-mortem is subjected to histology."
He said, "He had inflammation of the brain. if you have meningitis, there are two signs and symptoms that we look out for, which were there. And perhaps, a few signs and symptoms of irritation; however we want to problem it to a histology for a definitive solution.
"while you suspect that your affected person has meningitis, what you need to do is to start a healing trial of anti-TB medication. because the moment they get subconscious, it might be hard to opposite it and that become additionally achieved.
"by the point I got to peer him, he become already in a coma. He became having convulsions all the even as. We changed his remedy and he was stabilised for a few days."
The CMD of LASUTH, Oke, said the health center started remedy primarily based at the referral letter from the Ikeja medical Centre, adding that not anything in the letter confirmed a case of malaria.
"His referral letter said categorically that he had a mental problem. there has been in no way a query of malaria. whilst sufferers come like that, we take them as we see them and we control them based on anything our specialties say.
"He have been outside our health facility for two weeks. The referral letter introduced right here says he have been having neuro-psychiatric signs," he brought.
Efforts via our correspondent to talk with Ikeja medical Centre were annoyed via the medical institution. Its workers burdened our correspondent throughout a go to to the facility on Tuesday.
own family individuals of the victim stated even though Kolawole died at LASUTH, they believed his situation changed into worsened by way of docs at the Ikeja medical Centre, a personal facility on Allen road, Ikeja.
PUNCH Metro collected that Kolawole, who concluded his kids provider in Lagos someday in April, took unwell some days afterwards.
He became stated to have complained of "teary eyes and body pains" and had long past to the Ikeja clinical Centre, which turned into the own family hospital. It become accrued that like other children of the family, he became born on the sanatorium.
After a health practitioner allegedly recommended some malaria pills and later an eye drop, the scenario turned into said to have worsened, leading to his admission to the hospital.
Our correspondent turned into told that the hospital later stated he become manifesting symptoms of a intellectual illness and started treating him for "psychosis."
whilst there has been no improvement, the health center changed into stated to have referred him to LASUTH, in which he went right into a coma and later died on the extensive Care Unit.
The sufferer's brother, Kunle, informed PUNCH Metro that his overdue brother's clinical circumstance became not dealt with nicely at the scientific centre, adding that he changed into given some injections which affected his fitness.
Kunle alleged that the injections made him to misbehave, saying each time the effect of the injections wore off, he would regain his senses, run again domestic and beg to be taken away from the medical institution.
He defined that when he (Kunle) located that their maternal grandparents were adamant on retaining him (Kolawole) on the sanatorium, he challenged them and broke some belongings in the residence, which caused his arrest and detention.
He stated, "The illness started out on the give up of April, about every week after his children provider. i'm a baby-kisser and i used to be walking a marketing campaign to end up a councillor at that length. Kola complained that he were having burning sensations all over his frame and his eyes have been teary. I advised him to head for a lab test, however he stated he would go to our own family clinic. He went to the health center where he became given an eye drop, which he began reacting adversely to.
"He went again to the medical centre and he turned into instructed that he had malaria. The doctor prescribed a malaria drug for him. but, he started reacting negatively once more to the drug. That became when the medical doctor said he changed into having suits of delirium and showing symptoms of dementia."
He defined that the physician insisted on admitting Kolawole, however he objected, adding that the grandparents believed the physician and supported the circulate.
On the first week of his admission, Kunle said he become no longer happy with his brother's remedy, however the clinic confident him that Kolawole wished rest.
He stated that he became involved whilst Kolawole's pals, who additionally visited the medical institution, made similar observations. He stated he requested for the victim's switch to another health center.
Kunle stated he met the grandparents and requested for permission to move his brother from the hosipital, but they objected due to the family's long-time dating with the hospital.
"i was irritated with the clinic due to the fact they stored saying various things. First, it turned into delirium, then stress. They kept giving him injections. My brother changed into usually pronouncing he wanted to depart the health facility. as soon as he stated that, they could say he had began again and provide him greater injections.
"I told them that my brother become not mentally sick; he wanted to go away the sanatorium due to the fact they didn't recognise what they were doing," Kunle stated.
He added that because of his growing political engagement, the time he had for Kolawole became limited.
PUNCH Metro learnt that there has been a crisis in the residence on may also 17, 2017, while past due Kolawole ran domestic from the health facility.
The grandparents had been suggested to have known as a physician on the medical centre to include an injection for psychiatric patients to calm him down, a suggestion rejected via Kunle.
"i used to be angry because on every occasion they provide him the injection, he lost his senses. They (grandparents) asked me to close up. for two weeks, that changed into what they informed me. i used to be angry and that i could not take it again because I knew the physician become on the manner with the injection. I misplaced manipulate and started shouting that they should not supply him any drug.
"He turned into continually coming domestic each time he realised that they had been now not treating him properly. but my grandparents would take him again and he would obey in order that he might no longer seem like a disobedient toddler. The injection became killing him.
"That day, they requested the residence assist to lock the door. due to the fact I couldn't sit down down and watch him take another injection, I broke the door and left the house," he added.
PUNCH Metro learnt that a few spouse and children alerted the police of Kunle's action and he changed into detained for a day.
Kunle stated after that incident, he turned into instructed that his brother's condition had annoyed and he had been taken to LASUTH.
He defined that Kolawole become admitted to the psychiatric ward of LASUTH, based on a referral letter from the clinical centre.
Kunle said his brother became positioned within the equal ward with patients who had severe intellectual troubles and he spent approximately 10 days in the ward.
"He was later taken to the ICU wherein he spent two months and struggled to stay. but the damage were completed due to the fact my brother had spent two weeks on the medical centre, 10 days at LASUTH psychiatric ward earlier than he collapsed and become taken to the ICU.
"a few specialists at LASUTH later examined him and stated it changed into now not a psychotic case. They moved him to the ICU because he turned into at the factor of loss of life. I watched over him at the ICU for the 2 months.
"At one point, the seizure he changed into having stopped, and i idea he become getting better, now not knowing my brother changed into dying," he said.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the Idowu own family comprised 4 kids - Kunle, Kolawole, Adeniyi and a younger sister who's inside the united states of america.
The children's father died while they have been younger, while their mom, Mrs. Mopelola Osiyemi, travelled to the us in 2016.
Adeniyi, who studied within the Cyprus college, got a process in Dubai wherein he's now based totally.
Kunle and Kola, however, stayed with their grandparents at their family residence on Bolanle close, Allen street, now not a long way from the Ikeja clinical Centre.
Adeniyi, who said he turned into on holiday in Nigeria, advised PUNCH Metro that he was bowled over that his brother, who laughed with him at some stage in their time together, abruptly lost manipulate of himself and went right into a coma.
whilst insisting that Kolawole was not a drug addict, he said he had organized with an Iranian doctor to move him in a foreign country, however changed into instructed that the brother have to come out of a coma before he could be flown out.
He said, "The doctors at LASUTH told us that he turned into no longer mad; that he had micro organism which in all likelihood were given into his mind. They stated the medical practitioners at the first sanatorium messed him up. I known as a physician pal, who said my brother had an contamination referred to as meninges and it affected his mind. She said antibiotics may want to have cured him.
"each day he spent at the ICU value us N50,000. And that changed into apart the N100,000 on tablets and another N500,000 on a selected test. We spent millions of naira on treatment.
"when my brother died, we had to supply out some of the drugs he didn't use. but my eldest brother, Kunle, determined to carry domestic a particular one encouraged for us from the scientific centre, known as Haloperidol. once I googled it, i found that my brother manifested the precise symptoms stated inside the abuse of the drug, consisting of stiffness and coma, earlier than he died."
PUNCH Metro became told that the deceased, who marked his twenty ninth birthday in coma on June 23, became a graduate in 2013 after reading Accounting.
Our correspondent become informed that he died around 4pm on July 1, 2017, at the ICU of LASUTH.
"My brother, Kolawole, has by no means slept at a medical institution before. We need the health center investigated. We need the government and the Nigerian scientific association to intrude," Olaniyi said.
The victim's mom, Mopelola, in an emotional message she broadcast on Whatsapp some days to her son's death, alleged that the physician who handled him apologised to the circle of relatives.
"To God be the distinction; this is very said. but I ought to tell it. I gave beginning to Kolawole 29 years in the past on the same medical institution that administered wrong remedy that has placed him in a existence-threatening situation. The health practitioner that commenced his remedy went to my elderly father of 86 years to apologise, confessing that he gave Kolawole a incorrect medicine.
"I consider that is the beginning of Kolawole's recuperation method. What can i do at this degree? we are spending millions on clinic treatment in an intensive care unit because of one little mistake that shouldn't have occurred. God, you realize excellent. Kolawole have to stay to testify in your glory," the message study.
She told our correspondent on the phone after the son's death that the hospital must be held responsible for the alleged mistake.
She stated, "He was never diagnosed. I don't know my son as a drug addict. I left Nigeria 11 months in the past; are they saying he took to drugs within that duration, a son i've known for a long time? They ought to have performed proper assessments on him. we've got spent millions of naira simply due to one mistake.
"They insisted on treating him even when they lacked the competence due to the money they wanted to make from my family."
LASUTH's response
PUNCH Metro had a meeting with the leader clinical Director of LASUTH, Prof. Adewale Oke, and some top principal officers of the authorities medical institution.
Oke stated there was a limit to the records that would be released because of the ethics of the medical profession.
He cited that Kolawole changed into tested and treated with the aid of experts.
The health center's consultant psychiatrist, Dr Atilola Olayinka, said he was the primary to have contact with Kolawole after he turned into brought to the medical institution.
He said, "He came in as an emergency case and we didn't have any other statistics to make us doubt the reality that it became most possibly an ongoing psychiatric illness. On that foundation, we obtained him to manipulate him for the infection.
"within the direction of treatment,we,but,saw different signs and symptoms that did now not jell with a natural case of psychiatric illness. We investigated and referred to as in our scientific team to check it with us. whilst his stage of cognizance changed into taking place, we had to flow him to the ICU."
The consultant scientific officer, one Dr Bamisile, said he determined fissures, along with epileptic suits, neck stiffness and running fever.
"We saw that he could have a few natural troubles, apart from a useful psychosis. day after today, I went to peer him and determined that his attention changed into going. I examined and saw that there had been other scientific issues. He become jerking and had epileptic seizures. His neck was also stiff. He had going for walks fever at a time," he delivered.
He explained that the deceased also had fissures and inflammation of the brain, "which will be caused by a few organism."
At this factor, Bamisile said he asked that a microbiologist and a professor of neurology attend to Kolawole.
LASUTH's representative neurologist, Dr Olaitan Ojelabi, stated the 29-year-antique appeared "febrile, with restive signs and symptoms and other signs and symptoms, pointing at a case of meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the linings of the brain)."
"This condition may be because of bacteria. To deal with this, we upgraded his antibiotics, amongst other remedies," he delivered.
The consultant Anaesthesia, Dr A.A. Majekodunmi, stated the victim became later placed on a lifestyles-support system.
"After approximately weeks in the ICU, he commenced having troubles with respiration and we had to placed him on a ventilator to help him breathe. We repeated some investigations to discover what changed into incorrect with him. The own family turned into aware of the diagnosis, and that they have been conscious when it become getting worse. We saw that he become not responding to a few medications that we gave him. in the end, we had to put him on a supportive medicinal drug for his blood pressure until he sooner or later died. He became on existence aid for about a month before he handed on," she stated.
A professor of Neurology, Prof. Yomi Ogun, expressed unhappiness at the dying of Kolawole, announcing a partial post-mortem revealed the deceased's mind was swollen.
He stated that no one ought to inform what clearly killed him "till the post-mortem is subjected to histology."
He said, "He had inflammation of the brain. if you have meningitis, there are two signs and symptoms that we look out for, which were there. And perhaps, a few signs and symptoms of irritation; however we want to problem it to a histology for a definitive solution.
"while you suspect that your affected person has meningitis, what you need to do is to start a healing trial of anti-TB medication. because the moment they get subconscious, it might be hard to opposite it and that become additionally achieved.
"by the point I got to peer him, he become already in a coma. He became having convulsions all the even as. We changed his remedy and he was stabilised for a few days."
The CMD of LASUTH, Oke, said the health center started remedy primarily based at the referral letter from the Ikeja medical Centre, adding that not anything in the letter confirmed a case of malaria.
"His referral letter said categorically that he had a mental problem. there has been in no way a query of malaria. whilst sufferers come like that, we take them as we see them and we control them based on anything our specialties say.
"He have been outside our health facility for two weeks. The referral letter introduced right here says he have been having neuro-psychiatric signs," he brought.
Efforts via our correspondent to talk with Ikeja medical Centre were annoyed via the medical institution. Its workers burdened our correspondent throughout a go to to the facility on Tuesday.
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