Read this Article It all started about 3 months ago An innocent girl was diagnosed of curable kidney cancer at Eko Hospital All was well from the beginning she was admitted and went through the operation of removing one kidney primary source of the cancer After all the fear for the worse prayers and the pains she went through the operations was successful and all was well again She started gaining back her weight cracking jokes and doing every continued living normally She was discharged from the hospital and was told to come back in the next couple of weeks to start radiotherapy treatment Doomed We all know what radiotherapy involves and there is nothing wrong in the treatment but the manner the patient was been treated using the new radiotherapy device with little or know knowledge of how it operates She has to go through a one month of the radiotherapy treatment 6 mins per day Monday to Friday every week Now she s lost plenty of weight loss of appetite always in pain vomiting and diarrhea and every radiotherapy symptoms you can think of By now the fear in the family is intensely growing I believe a patient in that kind of situation should be in an intensive care of the hospital in question but eko hospital sent her home with some paracetamol They said in the next couple of weeks she would be fully okay and they insisted in her continuation of the treatment By now everything you can think of is happening to this little girl she s as skinny as you can describe it From time to time she asks if she s going to survive this and everyone around her said yes based on what they were told at Eko Hospital one person accidentally said madam I ll tell you the truth your day is doomed and she will not make it just take her home and pray for the rest of her life patient mother confronted the doctors with this matter and they said that the head nurse that shared that information does not work in their department and knows nothing about what she s talking about To cut the very long story short on the 2nd of October yesterday she has to be rushed into the hospital she said I don t want to stay at home I want to be in the hospital I believe I will be okay when we get to the hospital When they got to the nearest hospital to their home they refused her why because they do not have loads of cash at hand at that moment in time they progressed further to the next hospital where they required instant deposit as well Then finally progressed to a further hospital where instant cash is also required She herself begged the last doctor because she doesn t want to go home Now the time is 1 am all at home trying to make this poor girl comfortable as she was in pain all over this is a very bright 19 year old girl for God s Sake 2 am now she s now twitching all over and mumbling some word we do not understand the last sensible sentence she made was you you you have new clothes I m happy for you o I will tell my daddy and my mummy they will buy clothe for me too They had to rush her to EKO Hospital at the early hours of the morning like about 4 30 am right outside the hospital she was confirmed dead She ll be buried today Wednesday October 2007 Another potential Nigerian youth gone Although she s gone I want you guys to know that this is something that can happen to anybody Though cancer is not actually the course of her death but the treatment given to her and the manner the treatment was used Key Points Misleading Information by eko hospital to patient family throughout this ordeal only 1 blood transfusion was done On her death certificate primary course of death Malabsorbtion secondary course of death renal failure Note not cancer This is poor negligence this girl would have been alive if not for the negligence I want the medical lawyers in this forum to shed some light at the moment take me as a very angry man because the 19 year old angel is my baby sister Update1 At the burial ground a doctor had to be called out on emergency because when her friends asked to open the casket to see her face for the last time she was sweating All hope high again like there s going to be another miracle of the century we were all confused and wondering why someone confirmed dead will be sweating Though we d thought that it s possible because she d just been brought out of ice But when a doctor arrived he reconfirmed her dead and he said that the sweating is possible due to some reasons he mentioned Anyway we ve buried her now but another question arises was she actually dead or unconcious when they confirmed she was dead Cos the staff that