• Your allegations are false and misleading, son counters
Two children of a man who died after a surgery have expressed different opinion about the cause of their father’s death.
Ms Ifeoma, daughter of Augustine Dike, had sued her father’s physician, Dr.Adolphus Oriaifo, citing medical negligence.
Dike died after undergoing medical treatment at the Ajayi Oriaifo Memorial Hospital; and his daughter, Ifeoma, had sued Dr.Adolphus Oriaifo before the Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal in Abuja.
However, in a written affidavit, Mr. Jerry Dike, another child of the late Augustine Dike, said Ifeoma’s allegations concerning the cause of their dad’s death were “false and misleading.”
The incident leading to Mr. Augustine Dike’s death happened between September 17 and 29, 2013, but the Dike family was able to obtain judgment on Thursday, April 8, 2021.
Ifeoma, in a sworn affidavit dated November 19, 2013, had alleged gross negligence, noting that Oraifo didn’t inquire about the medication history of her father before administering Gentamicin and Ampiclox on him.
She also claimed that the physician did not use correct medical channels or procedures to ascertain the complexities of the injuries sustained by the deceased in a car accident before he was made to undergo surgery, even when the doctor was aware of Dike’s diabetic status.
Ifeoma noted that necessary pre- and post-surgery observations were not made on time, and that the autopsy report revealed that her dad, Augustine Dike, died from pulmonary embolism.
She said that the autopsy reportissued by another facility was contrary to Dr.Oriaifo’s report attributing the primary and secondary causes of Dike’s death to diabetes complications and fracture.
However, Ifeoma was countered by Jerry in a written statement dated December 7, 2020.
Recalling the circumstances that allegedly led to the death of his father, Jerry said that he took Augustine Dike to the Ajayi Oriaifo Memorial Hospital for medical treatment on the evening of September 17, 2013.
He said that the facts contained in the affidavit of Ifeoma were “false and misleading,” and that Dr.Oriaifo “personally attended to his late father, examined him and wrote his [medical] history.”
Jerry also stated that X-ray and other laboratory tests were done on the patient; that the blood sugar level of his late father was observed and that it was coming down on a daily basis during treatment.
According to the MDPDT charge sheet obtained by our correspondent, Jerry also maintained that insulin drug (injection) was never administered on Augustine Dike throughout his stay in the hospital; “that the blood sugar level was 113.3mg dl (considered normal) on September 25, 2013; that Dr.Oriaifo and his team performed a surgery on his father’s right thigh (femur), which was successful; that his late father was never catheterised because it was not necessary since he was urinating without difficulty; and that the doctors and nurses tried their best.”
Jerry claimed that his father did not die immediately, but four days after the surgery, and that his blood sugar level was properly controlled before and after the surgery, and was adjudged normal.
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