Boy with missing intestIne dies 

 

Adebola Akin-Bright, the boy whose small intestine reportedly went missing in the process of surgery at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), has died.

He died on Tuesday,  hours after Lagos State House of Assembly said it has made shocking discoveries about the missing intestine.

The boy’s death comes the same day the Assembly called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to direct the Ministry of Health to release funds for the boy’s overseas treatment.

Adebola had been battling to survive after multiple surgeries were performed on him and it was confirmed that his small intestine was missing.

His mother, Abiodun Deborah early in September narrated to Sahara Reporters how her son, Adebola, was referred to LASUTH from a private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre situated at Ileepo in the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state on June 17 following a complication from surgery to correct intestinal obstruction.

 

According to the mother, her son was said to have a ruptured appendix and he had surgery at Obitoks Medical Centre in February 2023.

 

“After the surgery, he was fine until June when he kept saying he had pain in the stomach. This made us go back to the hospital and the doctor said he had intestinal obstruction and he underwent another surgery,” the mother told SaharaReporters.

 

She revealed further more than seven days after her son had the second surgery, they noticed that he was still draining bilious fluid.

 

“We went back to the private hospital and the Chief Medical Doctor told us the boy would undergo another surgery and it will be with the help of a professor from Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.

 

“This was why we decided to move to LASUTH since the professor is from there so that they can have total management,” she said.

 

She added the management of LASUTH told them the boy should not undergo another surgery immediately but they kept nursing him.

 

She continued: “It was when there was a burst in his abdomen after spending almost a month at LASUTH that they carried out the surgery. It was after the surgery they told me that my boy was without his small intestine.”

 

Deborah claimed that neither the management of LASUTH nor Obitoks Medical Centre provided an explanation as to the whereabouts of her son’s intestine.

 

“They (LASUTH and Obitoks Medical Centre) are both shifting blame. And the state government and Nigerian Medical Association have been silent on the matter despite my plea for their intervention on this matter,” she said.