Ayobami Aranmolate, the Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer of Grandville Medical Centre, a plastic and aesthetic surgery hospital in Lagos State, has cried out over death threats to himself and some members of his medical team. Aranmolate had treated a 32-year-old male patient who was involved in a ghastly road accident and was brought into his medical facility in critical condition.
Necessary investigations were conducted and it was discovered that the victim had multiple fractures and had to be operated upon, despite the fact that the family only deposited part payment for the patient’s treatment.
After the successful operation, the patient was moved to the ICU for critical care and monitoring, but 15 hours later, his family requested that he should be transferred to another medical facility. The doctor resisted such a move because of the fragile state he was in.
However, the family would have none of that, the patient was moved in Grandville’s ambulance with mobile mechanical ventilators and three medical staff to another medical facility after the drama.
The medical facility the patient was taken to rejected him because of his fragile state and the family turned the aggression on the medical personnel who followed the ambulance. They fought Aranmolate and almost lynched him. They also kidnapped the ambulance driver and made him drive for several hours in search of another medical facility that would admit the patient.
Unfortunately, the patient died as they were moving from one facility to the other. The family thereafter started threatening Aranmolate and his medical team after the death of the patient. They accused them of killing the 32-year-old accident victim and are demanding their pound of flesh.
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