Husband tackles Lagos hospital as wife dies after childbirth

A man, Jeremiah Akinsetemi, has accused the management and medical practitioners at the Faith-Hills Specialist Hospital of negligence resulting in the death of his wife, Rachael, who got delivered of a baby at the hospital in the Egbeda area of Lagos State.

He claimed that his wife was bleeding after giving birth, and the hospital transfused the only pint of blood they had, which was not enough adding that they couldn’t give her another blood because they don’t have a blood bank.

Reacting to the development, the Managing Director of the Faith-Hills Specialist Hospital where Rachael delivered her baby, Dr Lilian Obianuju, said Rachael presented at the hospital with a reduction in fetal movement, adding that despite informing her and her husband that a Caesarean Section was needed to be performed to bring out the baby and save her life, the couple declined and left the hospital on February 10 and returned eight weeks later.