Rising cases of maternal deaths unsettle FMC Asaba

No fewer than 13 pregnant women have allegedly lost their lives at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Asaba, a situation that has unsettled the medical facility in recent times.

Sources, however, said the hospital’s management has resorted to prayers to salvage the situation. Its Acting Medical Director, Dr. Victor Osiatuma, said the prayer session was required to ensure and enhance the job of the workers, the doctors and the patients.

He insisted that rising cases of maternal deaths in the hospital was not the result of negligence, stressing that as medical practitioners, death of patients was part of the practice, especially as death is inevitable.

Checks by Guardian revealed that the recent alleged killing of one Rita Uchegbuego was not the only calamity bedeviling the hospital, but 13 other pregnant women had died at the hospital.

Investigations revealed that the panel of enquiry constituted by Osiatuma, and chaired by a professor from the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Ife and a doctor from the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) slammed six months suspension on the consultant who handled Uchebuego’s antenatal care.

Guardian, September 16, 2017

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