ADEBOLA Akin-Bright, the 12-year-old boy with a missing intestine in Lagos State, is dead.
His demise was made known by a family source, who said he died at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Ikeja, on Tuesday night after spending over one month in the hospital.
It was learnt that he developed complications and was rushed to the intensive care unit of the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
PUNCH Healthwise reported that the Lagos State House of Assembly had earlier called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to direct the Ministry of Health to release funds for the overseas treatment of the boy.
Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, while presiding over the day’s plenary, moved that the boy needed urgent treatment abroad. Obasa and the House also called for the immediate arrest of the doctor of the private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre in the Alimosho area of the state, who performed the initial surgery that led to the missing small intestine while investigations continue.
Obasa’s position followed a preliminary report by the Majority Leader, Noheem Adams, who briefed the House on the findings of a five-man ad-hoc committee, created to investigate the circumstances that led to the disappearance of the boy’s intestine.
Giving the preliminary report, Adams said members of the ad-hoc committee visited the boy at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) on Tuesday.
Weeks back Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State visited Adebola and pledged to cover his medical care and expenses.
This was after the boy’s mother pleaded with the governor to probe the disappearance of her son’s small intestines, which according to her, occurred while he was receiving treatment at LASUTH.
The hospital management, however, denied the allegation in a statement made on its profile on X, on August 12,
Earlier, the Lagos State House of Assembly had said that anyone who is found culpable in the case of the missing intestine of Adebola Akin-Bright would be prosecuted in due course.
SOURCE:PUNCH