The management of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital, ATBUTH, Bauchi, on Thursday said it has set up a probe panel to investigate alleged professional misconduct that surrounded the death of Master Yusuf Abdulkareem, son of a journalist, who died while on admission in the hospital.
Seven years old Master Abdulkareem, was the son of PREMIUM TIMES staff, Abdulkareem Haruna.
He was reported dead on Tuesday morning around 3am after his parents rushed him to the hospital in the early hours of Monday morning.
The child, said to be suffering from typhoid related intestinal complications, was expected to undergo some surgical operations to remedy his condition before he finally died.
The parents had threatened to protest the gross act of negligence on the parts of those who handled his case before he finally gave up.
According to them, the doctors and nurses literally folded their arms while the boy suffered pains that led to his death.
During condolence visit to the bereaved family, Mr Haruna, an assistant editor with PREMIUM TIMES said “God gives and takes life; but the unprofessional conduct of the doctors and wicked attitude of some of the nurses towards our son and many other patients at the ATBUTH shouldn’t go unpunished. They never gave my son the care when we rushed him there”.
Apparently irked by the unwholesome conduct of its doctors and nurses, ATBUTH, top management team led by the Chairman Medical Advisory Committee (CMAC), Dr Abubakar S. Kadas, on Thursday paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family.
The team said they were in the bereaved journalist’s home in Bauchi to express their sympathy and regrets over the unfortunate development.
Dr Kadas in his sympathy message acknowledged that there was a gross professional misconduct on the part of the medics who were supposed to save the life of the deceased child.
“We as a management of the Teaching Hospital Bauchi don’t normally do what we came here to do. But your son’s case is a special one and that is why we are here to express our sympathy. If the CMD was in town, he would have personally led this team.
“We are sorry about what happened and we come here to assure you that we have set up an internal panel to investigate the issue for appropriate disciplinary actions”.
The ABTUTH management arrived the home of the bereaved family after Mr Haruna had rushed his traumatized wife to a hospital after she broke down with serious fever.
The ATBUTH was established in 2010, after the then government of Bauchi converted its former Specialists Hospital.
But the hospital which is supposed to be a referral health centre, functions as a glorified clinic where standard equipment and personnel is lacking.
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