My Pregnant Wife Was Doing Well But The Doctors Failed Us; I Need Justice For My Late Wife- Man Cries Out

The rate at which some doctors kill innocent women and babies due to their negligence is very alarming. A young man who goes by the name Johnny De Goodman has narrated how the doctors in a private hospital killed her young wife and baby, and many social media users after coming across this sad news couldn't keep mute over it. The name of this hospital is St. Martins Hospital located in Portharcourt, Nigeria.

This is how the young man narrated how his wife and baby sadly passed away due to doctors' negligence:

" My wife was pregnant, Her due date was 29th October. She has passed her EDD as she was 40 weeks plus 3 days due. She went for her routine check-up and did a scan last week Tuesday, 1st November 2022. The scan results confirmed that the baby and mother were all in perfect condition.

The doctor told her if she does not go into natural labour between that Tuesday till the end of the week, she should come with her bags the following week so as to be manually induced into labour. So on Sunday night 6th November 2022 at about past 11: 00 pm, she started having stomach pains.

Then we proceeded to the hospital. We got to the hospital by 12 midnight and the doctor available told her she was 5cm dilated and was already in labour. They said she would need to get to 10cm dilated before she will be taken to the delivery room. By 2: 00 am, the doctor came to observe her and burst her water bag.

At about 5: 00 am, the doctor told me that the baby was in distress and defecated in my wife' s womb and said that if the baby stays any longer in the womb it will pose some future health threat to the child when delivered or the child might likely die in the womb. And they recommended her for an operation. I and my wife gave our consent immediately.

The doctor kept on delaying in commencing with the operation without any viable reason except that the gynaecologist and the team of doctors that would perform the surgery needed to arrive at the theatre. By past 6: 00 am, I went again to meet the doctor to know why they are yet to commence the operation, I met him handing over to another consultant, asked him if he was leaving and he said he was done for the day.

I asked him about the operation that he suggested, and he said it would soon commence and also told me that they may likely also reconsider her delivering normally without being operated. I asked further if there was no cause for alarm considering the previous report he gave, and he said there was nothing to worry about.

At 8: 15 am my wife walked into the theatre for the operation. By past 11: 00 am, they came to tell me that they gave her drugs to prepare her for the operation and after some minutes, her heart stopped beating, and her pulse stopped responding.

How can a woman that came into the hospital full of health and physically strong automatically stop breathing immediately after she was administered drugs? The doctors failed to bring out the baby from her womb even after when they confirmed to me that the baby was still alive in the womb.

The operation was not done, my wife gone, baby gone. They abandoned me, my wife's lifeless body, and our innocent unborn baby in the theatre without anybody coming to give even a word of sympathy let alone explain to me what happened till this moment I write to the whole world. Human lives mean nothing to Nigerian Hospitals and there are a lot of incompetent Doctors.

Value for Humans' lives is like mere laboratory tools to them. St Martins Hospital Portharcourt must pay for taking my wife away from me, King our baby and exterminating my generation".

Some social media users after coming across Johnny De Goodman's post said that the doctors involved need to be arrested. This is clear negligence on their part leading to the death of the mother and child. Others said that most private hospitals are not serious when it comes to surgical operations and they mostly do not employ qualified doctors. Government hospitals have good doctors, equipment and time for their patients.