The family of a 10-year-old boy, Ismail Ibrahim, has berated the management of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, following the refusal of a doctor to attend to the minor, who was knocked down by a car at the Buzaye village along the Bauchi-Jos Road.
“When the accident happened, we called the Federal Road Safety Corps officials, who were stationed in Buzaye, and they rushed to the scene and together, we took the victims to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital in Bauchi for treatment.
“They got there before me, since I also took some of the injured victims in my car, and when I got there, I discovered that the victims were still inside the car. I met the FRSC officials telling the doctor that they had brought a patient, but he didn’t listen to them.
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Another eyewitness, Nasiru Chigili, described the doctor’s action and utterances as “inhuman.”
He said, “It was as a result of the refusal to accept the injured that led to that boy’s death. They were there for exactly 40 minutes but the doctor refused to accept them; what kind of wickedness is that?”
He called on the Federal Ministry of Health to set up a panel to investigate the matter and punish those found culpable.
He said he had since constituted a committee to investigate the allegations against the doctor in question.
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Mohammed assured members of the public that appropriate sanctions would be meted out to anyone found culpable if a case of negligence was established in line with the code of conduct of the medical profession.
Earlier, the Head of Operations, Bauchi State Sector Command, FRSC, Ibrahim Abubakar, confirmed the crash, saying it occurred around 5.30pm, on Tuesday, January 7, 2020. Punch
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