A man Hunpe
Semako, alleged that an Indian Medical
Doctor, Dr. M. B. Jayaram of Prema Sai Hospital, Agege, Lagos, of being
responsible for the death of his wife and for inflicting cuts on his baby while
she was being delivered.
In a suit filed
by Barrister Kayode Adaramoye, it was alleged that the doctor’s professional
misconduct led to the death of Mrs. Funkemi Hunpe, mother of the baby.
Hunpe in the
suit averred that his wife consulted Dr. Jayaram on February, 17, 2014 for the
purpose of ante-natal services.
He further
averred that when his wife began to notice pre-delivery signs on February 24,
2014, she went to the hospital and was, “subsequently placed on admission and
given injections, sequel to which she was ordered to engage in labour exercise
for several hours without medical attention from available midwives and
auxiliary nurses.”
Hunpe noted in
the suit that he was invited into the labour room after several hours of ‘intense
labour without adequate care.’ He was asked to encourage his wife, ‘to push,’
out as she appeared exhausted. In the labour room, he saw a nurse applying Aboniki (hot
balm) mechanically on his wife.
“After this amateurish mechanism did not yield
desired result, they cut my wife three times to bring out the baby and placed
it somewhere unattended to,” said Hunpe.
He averred that
that there was no doctor present throughout the delivery. A nurse later went to
call Dr. Jayaram. Hunpe said that his wife bled profusely to death due to the
unprofessional cuts administered on her.
The claimant
alleged that Dr. Jayaram told him around 6:45pm, on February, 26, 2014, to call
his pastor, as she did not think that his wife could survive.
He explained
that he was later informed that his wife was dead. The hospital allegedly
called a pastor to pray for the resurrection of Mrs. Hunpe. But the woman did
not resurrect.
The claimant
averred that due to the unprofessional cuttings of incompetent hands on his
wife, the baby suffered serious deep cuts on its back and buttocks. These cuts
on different sites of the baby, further attested to the mutilation done on his
wife, he said.
But in a letter
entitled: “Demand for N500m Damages,” signed by John Adanike, counsel to Dr.
Jayaram, said his client was not guilty of negligent or professional
misconduct.
Adanike denied
liability to pay damages of N500m, insisting that his client carried out her
duties in the best professional manner.
Source: Juliana Francis’
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