Patient disappears from Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, family blames nurses

Ajarat Muritala, 40, was receiving treatment on a heart related disease at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State. The mother of four children was said to have gone into a coma on October 11 and was admitted to the emergency and accident ward of the hospital.

She was later taken to the female ward, where she went missing after regaining consciousness. Her husband, Muftau Muritala, said the hospital management had not shown concern for her whereabouts. He said, “She was supposed to go for treatment at the hospital on October 19.
But on October 11, her condition got worse. We rushed her to the hospital and I was told to pay N10,000 admission fee, which I did. She was placed on oxygen all through that day. In the evening, I went to pay for a scan she was to have the following day.
At about 10am the next day, some nurses wheeled her into the X-ray centre for a scan. She was taken to the female ward after the scan. A doctor came to attend to her and she was served a meal. After she finished eating, she said she wanted to rest.
Her elder sister, my 2nd wife and my mother, were with her in the ward. They were later told to go outside. I went into the ward around 12pm to check her but she was not on her sick bed. There were about six nurses in that ward. They told me to check her in the toilet.
My relatives outside joined me and we searched everywhere but we couldn’t find her. We rushed to the gate to inform the security men and they said they didn’t see any patient. Meanwhile, the nurses didn’t help us to search for her until they handed over to their colleagues on afternoon duty.”
The incident was reported to the police around 3pm and the chief security officer of the hospital and the nurses on duty were quizzed by the police. Mr. Muritala lamented that police investigation into her disappearance was at snail pace, saying no progress had been made in finding her since she went missing. Crdt: Punchng