Adewale Olailo, the father of Kemisola Afolabi (not real name), a patient at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, has narrated how the hospital management neglected his daughter, thereby worsening the girl’s health condition.

Olailo told FIJ that the hospital had abandoned Afolabi in her ward for almost one month now.

“It is almost one month that any doctors came to treat or look after my daughter to confirm her level of recuperation. The doctors and nurses have literally abandoned us. We sought to know why this is happening, but no one is ready to speak to us,” Olailo told FIJ.

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FIJ learned that the hospital stopped Afolabi’s treatment after Olatunji Alabi, the driver who broke the girl’s leg, lobbied key officers in the hospital to help lift the financial burden on him by discharging the poor girl.

“Every morning, medical workers come to our ward to attend to other patients while they ignore us. We are now left to our fate. I join her mother in dressing her wounds, even though an orthopaedic implant is still firmly in her leg,” said Olailo.

“A few days after your media house published a story about my daughter’s situation, Prof. Adekunle Ajayi, the chief medical director, came to our ward and asked why the media reported the story.

“As I am speaking with you, there is no official information about why we are going through this. However, I heard from someone that the CMD said they were done with us and that was why they stopped treating my girl.

“But I think this is unfair. Look at my daughter; she’s writhing in pain. The bone wounds are still fresh, the orthopaedic steel fixed into her leg has not been removed. It is difficult for her to move her leg with the steel.”

Speaking with FIJ, a doctor, who asked not to be named, had said that a patient with the kind of Afolabi’s condition could not be discharged with an orthopaedic implant. “Generally speaking, a patient cannot be discharged with an orthopaedic implant in her leg. And in the same vein, the orthopaedic tool cannot be removed until the internal wounds heal up.”

The doctor said that trying to discharge Afolabi in her current condition was a wrong move.

The schoolgirl’s father also told FIJ that he told the driver who broke the girl’s leg about the family’s plight in the federal government-owned facility and he said he was also making efforts to see that things changed for the better.

“I narrated the state of things to the driver and he assured me he had called some people he knew within the hospital. He said they assured him they would resume my daughter’s treatment. But the situation is still the same,” said Olailo

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FIJ called Doctor Ariyibi, the medical doctor treating the girl, for a comment, but he declined.

The hospital neither returned FIJ’s phone call nor replied to a text message for comments at press time.