The Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Ido-Ekiti, has refused to treat Kemisola Afolabi (not real name), the 15-year-old schoolgirl who lost a leg after an accident late last year.

Returning home from school on November 18, 2022, Afolabi had an ugly date with destiny when a moving car veered off the expressway and hit her, leading to the loss of her left leg.

Afolabi’s father said that the hospital was the first and only hospital the girl was taken to for treatment and that she had been on admission since the day of the incident.

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“I was called on the phone when the accident happened. Being a federal medical facility, good-spirited Nigerians, together with the driver, rushed my daughter to FTH, and we have been there since that day,” Adewale Olailo, Afolabi’s father, told FIJ.

“Her treatment was progressing until medical personnel caring for her abruptly stopped. One day, Doctor Ariyibi and another doctor came and said we would be discharged in a few days.”

FIJ learned that Kemisola’s treatment stopped after the driver who damaged her leg approached some top officers at the hospital to quicken the discharge of the girl to relieve him of his commitment to her hospital bill.

The driver had promised to foot the girl’s treatment at the FTH, but a few weeks into her admission, he started showing signs he wasn’t comfortable spending more money.

“Sometimes, he would not call us for several days, not even to ask about the girl. Meanwhile, he was not the only one spending money. We are also doing so,” Olailo told FIJ.

He said the driver confessed to contacting some officers at the hospital but claimed it was not to stop Kemisola’s treatment.

In another dimension, Professor Adekunle Ajayi, the hospital’s chief medical director, was uncomfortable with media reports on the poor girl’s situation and confronted the family.

“The CMD came and was furious about the story. Despite that, they have not turned up to treat my daughter, even though some nurses come to our ward regularly to attend to others. I asked someone to confide in me, and he said it was not about money,” said Olailo.

More than a month after the chief medical officer confronted the family for speaking to the media, no one has attended to the poor girl.

“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,” said Olailo.

“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.

“It appears we have been neglected by the hospital and we have accepted our fate. I have even made some moves to have them remove the bone plugged into her leg so that we could easily leave the hospital for another place, but no one is ready to attend to us.”

FIJ learned from a medical expert who asked not be named that the girl was at a critical point in her treatment, and that discharging her would send her back to square one.

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Both the medical expert handling her treatment and the public relations officer of the teaching hospital refused to comment on the matter.