IFY NWANGENE’s brother, Kaybaba narrated how his sister died and it’s a painful failure on the part of the doctors if this is 100% true.
Ify called me yesterday morning at about 8:30 am. She said, “Emy don’t panic but I have just been bitten by a snake. I’m on my way to the hospital.”
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I was in shock and asked her how come. She explained she was sleeping, felt a pain, and when she opened her eyes she saw the snake.
I realized that wasn’t the time for questions, so I cut the call and immediately called her back with my smaller phone. I used my bigger one to call people I knew in Abuja because she was going to the hospital alone, with her hands tied just by herself.
The first hospital she went to was Divine Health Hospital on Trade Mall Road in Lugbe, Abuja. When she got there, they immediately said they didn’t have the anti-venom and could not help her. So she booked a ride right away to get to a hospital that might have it.
I stayed on a call with her the entire time, never hung up. She was speaking fine, her hand was tied, and she was in a ride headed to Federal Medical Center Abuja. We got to the next hospital some minutes to 10 am, and she was still speaking with me.
When she got to the second hospital, she went into emergency and they started bombarding her with questions. I was still on call and it was irritating me. I kept asking what they were doing. I asked if they had the anti-venom, and she said they told her they would give her a drip.
The doctor removed the stuff she used to tie her hand to stop the venom’s circulation and kept telling her to calm down. She immediately told me, “Emy they have removed the thing I used to tie my hand.” I thought, well, she’s at the hospital now, the doctors should know better than me. I encouraged her to calm down.
When the drip was in, she started feeling dizzy and her tongue wasn’t speaking well anymore. That was when I let her relax and ended the call. By then, my uncle I had contacted in Abuja was at the hospital with her, so I felt a bit of relief thinking she was getting the treatment she needed.
Now, after they lost her, I started seeing people say she was bitten at night or the day before and only came yesterday, which was a lie. Doctors said she wasn’t talking properly and came in late. But she came in by herself, on both legs, without any help. I was speaking with her through it all and she was very audible.
Why did they remove the stuff she tied to prevent the spread of the venom? They told her to calm down and proceeded to put in a drip. Did they even have the anti-venom at this second hospital? The hospital failed her and then doubled down to lie about everything.
I hate this country so much.
May her soul rest in peace.
