LASUTH Finally Speaks On Missing 12-Year-Old’s Intestine During Surgery

The management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Ikeja, has denied allegations that it was culpable in the case of a 12-year-old boy’s missing intestines.

Following the repair operation on Adebola Akin-Bright on July 14, 2023, the boy’s mother, Deborah Abiodun, claimed she was confused when doctors at LASUTH told her that her son’s tiny intestines were missing.

She claimed that on June 17 after complications from surgery to treat intestinal obstruction, her son was referred to LASUTH from a private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre, located at Ile-epo in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.

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On Saturday, September 2, however, the management of LASUTH publicly declared via the microblogging service X, formerly known as Twitter, that they had not purposefully removed any organs or bodily parts from Abiodun’s body while carrying out the corrective operation.

The hospital’s management emphasized that it has cutting-edge equipment and highly qualified, trained, and professional medical consultants who would never commit such mistakes.

The statement reads: “Once again, the hospital management needs to clarify issues on the insinuations being made by a mother in a viral video that the alleged loss of her son’s intestines after surgery is a matter between a private hospital and LASUTH. Our hospital is an excellent tertiary institution with highly knowledgeable and skilled medical consultants.

“We are also equipped with state-of-the-art facilities. The patient in question was referred to our hospital after having two surgeries carried out in a private hospital.”

The management also noted that besides the surgery being carried out by an experienced paediatric surgeon and supported by her team of professionals, video clips of the surgery were available for further clarification and avoidance of doubts.

The statement further reads, “He required extensive optimisation in our facility before a corrective surgery could be carried out. At the surgery, which was carried out by an experienced pediatric surgeon and her team certain strange findings were discovered. There is a video clip of these intraoperative findings. The mother was informed about these findings but she appeared to be in denial.

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“The hospital is in possession of a comprehensive report of the findings by a high-powered panel that it quickly set up to look into all ramifications of this case.

“Clearly, our hospital carried out a corrective surgery and did not wilfully remove any organ or structure. We empathise with the family of the patient. We believe that financial assistance from any quarters will be in order but we do not think that a blackmail of the state government via social media is the best approach.

“The hospital management is cooperating with the state agency which is already investigating this rather unfortunate case.”