Abraham Omonigho, who was attacked by two German shepherd dogs in Igando area
of Lagos State, in September 2014, was infected while at the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
This was said by the medical personnel at the Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, an
Indian medical facility in Telegana State, where Omonigho was flown to late
November, 2014, after his father, Odia, took him out of LASUTH.
After spending about two months at the Apollo Hospitals, Omonigho returned to
Nigeria on Thursday. The treatment of the undisclosed infection was said to
have lasted over one month.
Omonigho’s scalp had been covered up by the doctors but Odia said his son would
return to India in June 2015, for a micro surgery.
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on Friday during a visit to the Abrahams in their Akesan Estate residence in
Igando area of Lagos.
Omonigho had been saved by his mother, Helen who single handedly fought off two
German dogs that had attacked him. The victim was taken to LASUTH and the State
Governor, Babatunde Fashola, ordered the management not to collect money from
the family. However, the victim’s father, Odia, had a running battle with the
hospital management, which he said still charged him for drugs and other
medications.
Odia later raised the alarm that his son’s condition had worsened as a result
of neglect by the hospital. The Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan,
intervened and together with a non-governmental organisation, Global Initiative
for Peace, Love and Care, a trip to India was arranged for Omonigho to undergo
a surgery.
The Lagos State Commissioner, Jide Idris, in a press release cautioned against
the trip, saying the victim’s condition was delicate. Idris alleged that the
victim’s father declined the state government’s offer for Omonigho to be flown
to another specialist hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Odia, however, insisted that his son’s head had started to rot and that the
Indian trip had been concluded before the state government gave him the Dubai
offer.
Odia said the Indian doctors thrashed the medical report LASUTH issued to them,
which he said was termed as “mere paper.” He said:
information and couldn’t have been written by a doctor. They said it was good I
quickly brought my son because his head was getting rotten and had been
infected while at the hospital. The doctors told me they could not start with
the surgery because they had to treat the infections first.
LASUTH people said it was granulation. I had always suspected things were wrong
because at LASUTH, the nurses would open his head for dressing at 6am and leave
it open for the doctors, who would not show up till 12pm. And when they did,
they would ask the nurses to close it up. I remembered that no doctor showed up
for two weeks during a particular time. That was when I got mad because his
condition was becoming critical.
at least five special senior doctors attended to him every day.”
medical document of the hospital which confirmed that Omonigho’s head was
infected. It read:
over scalp with infection; the raw area was extending from frontal scalp,
bilateral parietal scalp to occipital region; the raw area was looking pale and
slimy; Infection+.
for evaluation of medical problems. He (Omonigho) was diagnosed as a case of
infected raw area over scalp.”
family they needed to do skin grafting to temporarily cover up the wound before
the major operation would be done after his return to India in June.
