Mother blames Lagos hospital for son’s illness – Punch Newspapers

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Oluwatobi Akindele

A woman, Ms. Victoria Abimbola, has accused the management of the Ikorodu General Hospital of causing her son’s cerebral palsy condition, saying careless handling of her delivery and subsequent overdose of a drug damaged her child, Daniel.

Abimbola said efforts to get assistance from the state government to remedy the damage had been ignored, adding that she had been frustrated.

The 42-year-old woman told our correspondent that she went into labour at the hospital around 9pm on January 12, 2010, when the incident happened.

She said, “I was placed on a drip to induce my labour. After taking about two drips, nothing happened. They called a senior doctor on the telephone. I overheard the senior doctor telling the doctor treating me that he was stupid after the latter explained all they had been doing to induce my labour. After the call, the doctor stopped all…



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