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The Coroner inquiring into the cause of death of Lagos-based pastry chef, Peju Ugboma, has indicted the doctors at a private hospital, Premier Specialist Medical Centre, for negligence.
The coroner, Magistrate Mukaila Fadeyi, said that the “only logical conclusion that one can reach is that the deceased died as a result of a combination of lack of due diligence and adequate investigations of her health status before embarking on the surgery, substandard care, inadequate monitoring and the failure of appropriate response to abnormal patient’s vital signs”.
His verdict is coming almost two years after the mother of two died after suffering internal bleeding following an elective hysterectomy operation for a fibroid condition at the Victoria Island based hospital in April 2021.
Until her death on 25 April, the 41-year-old Peju was the founder of a pastry company, I Luv Desserts.
After the surgery in April, she complained of severe abdominal pain and discomfort. Her blood pressure dropped to as low as 50/30.
She died after she was referred from Premier hospital to EverCare Specialist Hospital.
At Evercare, it was discovered that she had no pulse, and a subsequent CPR to revive her, failed.
The deceased husband, Ijoma Ugboma had accused Premier hospital of negligence resulting in her premature death.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that in May 2021, the coroner’s inquest commenced to unravel the cause of death.
In June, the Lagos State Government through the Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA), shut down the intensive care unit of the hospital, pending the outcome of its investigation.
In the same June, the Federal Competition & Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) also commenced its public hearing to determine whether there was any violations of applicable consumer/patient protection standard in the death of late Peju Ugboma.
Doctors from the hospital failed to testify at the public hearing. They claimed that the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN had ordered them not to because the Council was also looking into the issue.
A total of 16 witnesses, however, testified before the coroner including the widower, doctors, pathologist and others.