“How my wife died of wrong diagnosis” – APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole Reveals
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has narrated how his late wife, Clara Oshiomhole was a victim of quack medical doctors.
Mr Oshiomhole who spoke at the Founders Day and Launching of Endowment fund of the University of Bénin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) on Thursday, May 16, said his late wife died of wrong diagnoses.
Adams Oshiomhole, former Governor of Edo State said he would have sued the doctors for wrongly diagnosing his wife if it were to be another country, The Nation reports.
Decrying the decay of Nigeria’s medical system, the comrade who is now married to his Ethiopian beau, Lara Fortes called for a review of Nigeria’s medical system to enable doctors treat patients only in that aspect in which they have competence.
He added that wrong diagnoses could be prevented by governments if it provides robust regulation on the health system.
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Oshiomhole said:
”You visit a hospital, one doctor is gynaecologist, psychologist, pediatric, and the doctor treats everything. My wife was unfortunate to have been diagnosed as having something different while the cancer in her breast was growing.
This generalized system of medical system is what we must review. It is not the task of government that things are not working. People elect government to make things work.
That was why I decided to build what I called Five Star hospital to replace the decayed Central Hospital. I do hope that one day that hospital will open and you will see the equipment.
One thing we need to do is appropriate compensation. When we have the right policy framework, the other level of compensation, people are paid according to, I believe doctors working outside the country will come back.”
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It was gathered that the Senate has announced that the health minister, Isaac Adewole, will on Tuesday, May 21, appear before it to disclose the current state of facilities in Nigeria teaching hospitals.
Senate President Bukola Saraki made this announcement known during plenary on Thursday, May 16.