By Doris Obinna
Doren Specialist Hospital, Ajah, Lagos State, has discredit the video making rounds on the social media that its staff members were negligent in the treatment of late Big Brother Naija star, Patrick Fakoya, aka Rico Swavey.
The video which trended on social
media following the reality TV star’s death, showed nurses around him as confused and disorganised, while he laid on the stair chair. It was alleged that the hospital’s health workers denied Swavey of prompt medical attention.
A close friend and fellow housemate,
Asogwa Alexandra, aka Alex Unusual, via her Instagram on Saturday called out the hospital to bring out its CCTV recordings.
She said: “Coming from a hospital
that didn’t have a functioning vehicle to move an emergency patient. You people are out of your minds. Please, bring out your CCTV recordings to back up this stupidity you put out.
“What gave you the guts to release someone’s phone number to the public, invading the privacy of someone that’s mourning especially when your carelessness is an undeniable cause of it.”
@doren_hospital your impotent excuse for a hospital, nobody has any good thing to say about your hospital from all I’ve heard. Bad reviews and unqualified staff. You failed your patient. Irritants.”
The hospital in its statement, ‘INCIDENCE REPORT ON AN RTA CASE BROUGHT TO DOREN SPECIALIST HOSPITAL ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022 AT 1:45AM,’ debunked that its nurses were not responsible for the viral video.
The statement further states: “An
unknown patient, a victim of RTA (road traffic accident) was brought in bleeding from the ear, nose, and mouth and smelling of alcohol, and first aid
administered, before a referral to Evercare Hospital for urgent neurosurgical review.”
It also read in part: “Efforts were made
to trace his family and one female friend of his (Miss Ify Helen Eze, phone no- 070….) came into the facility to see him. She and the Good Samaritan who brought the patient were told of the severity of his condition, and the need for
urgent neurosurgical review and also the need to be referred to Evercare
Hospital. Miss Ify Helen Eze fainted on seeing his condition, and she had to be
resuscitated.
“A detailed referral letter was
written and given to the relations. After an initial reluctance, they accepted
the letter. But before leaving the two of them (Miss Ify and the Good
Samaritan) decided to make a video to exonerate themselves from being
implicated as being responsible for the patient’s condition. Most likely Miss
Ify Helen Eze and her partner (Good Samaritan) are the people who videoed and posted on social media for reasons best known to them.
“Doren nurses pleaded with them to
help take the patient to the vehicle and stop videoing. At no point in time did
a Doren staff video the patient or laugh. One of the nurses spoke in Hausa
trying to persuade them to assist in moving the patient who has already been positioned on our stair chair ready to be moved to the vehicle instead they
kept videoing.
“The following morning, our nurses
reached out to Miss Ify Helen Eze to find out about the current condition of
the patient, and we were told the patient was currently hospitalised and
receiving care in Evercare Hospital. 72 hours after the referral from Doren
Specialist Hospital, we were shocked to hear that the young man had passed on.
Doren and its staff empathise with the family of the deceased.”
The hospital also disclosed that it
had discussed with the Lagos State Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) and the Police in Ajah to investigate the source of the video on social media.
Meanwhile, of the time of filing
this report, no member of HEFAMMA could be reached as calls put to them were not answered.
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Lagos State council doubted the video saying no registered nurse would act
in that reckless manner and abandon a patient in such a state to make a video
or even violate their privacy.
The association in its statement title: “Viral Video of Patient at Doren Hospital,” dispute the fact that the video as widely alleged to have been recorded by nurses on duty who were expected to be attending to the patient in need of urgent medical attention.
“The Association has made the necessary enquiry and it is clear that the nurses did not make the video. They instead asked the person who was making the video to stop and assist in lifting the patient into a vehicle for him to be transported to a more resourced facility after the initial intervention. This is corroborated by the hospital’s report of the incident.
“It provided a clear explanation as to what happened and exonerated the nurses in the video,” the statement reads.