The Kebbi State Government has setup a committee to investigate a newborn baby who lost a limb apparently due to a
medical error as claimed in a video making waves online.
It
will be recalled that a doctor amputated the baby’s arm since,
according to him, the baby had died in the womb hence the need to save
the mother’s life. He later realised that the baby was alive and
healthy.
A statement issued yesterday by Aisha Augie-Kuta,
the Senior Special Assistant on New Media, said that Governor Abubakar
Atiku Bagudu gave the order immediately
after viewing the worrisome photographs and video interview of a man who
claims to be a relative to the child online on Sunday 23rd April, 2017.
The relative says that the error occurred at General Hospital in Zuru,
Kebbi State during a birth delivery procedure. The committee includes
high level medical doctors, legal and security personnel charged with
getting the full information on the story for further action.
The investigation is to ensure that any issues of medical malpractice is
ascertained and if that being the case prosecuted to ensure that it
does not happen again in the future.
Medical malpractice is
professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in
which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of
practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the
patient, with most cases involving medical error.
The Governor
strongly believes that the primary responsibility of any government is
to protect the lives and property of its citizens and says it is
disheartening to see the photographs of a newborn in such a manner.
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