Husband sues FMC Makurdi over wife's death; demands N159m
Mrs Sabina Uyeh
until her death was a Public Relations Officer of the Federal Medical Center.
The deceased's husband,
Benjamin Uyeh is demanding the sum of N159 million for general and special
damages, as well as costs for the alleged negligence that led to his wife’s
death.
Earlier, in a
pre-action notice served on the defendants, Benjamin had threatened to sue the
FMC and the doctors -- Dr Paulinus Abu, Dr Jerome Ohene and Dr Hussein Micah --
unless they compensated the family with N50m as "medical damages" for
the death of his wife.
Benjamin in a
pre-action notice had also insisted that the doctors be made to face
disciplinary action for allegedly causing the death of his wife in October
2019.
He alleged that the
surgery performed on his wife by the doctors left her with perforated stomach.
The grieving husband also decried the dismissal of the scan result, which
indicated that his wife's gut was perforated, by one of the doctors.
Benjamin further
alleged that "the negligent act and the subsequent actions and inactions
of Dr Micah" subjected his wife to unimaginable pain for three months,
until she eventually died.
He said efforts to
arrive at a peaceful out-of-court settlement had failed, forcing him to take
legal action against the defendants.
According to
Tribune, in the writ of summons filed at the Federal High Court, Makurdi
Division by Counsel to the Plaintiff, Kenneth Achabo of Achabo, Chaha and
Associates, Uyeh declared that "the defendants were negligent in the way
and manner" they handled the medical condition of his wife, Sabina.
In the summons, Uyeh
insisted that his "wife died as a result of the defendant’s
negligence", thereby prompting him to claim from them, the sum of N159m as
general damages; special damages and cost for the suit.
The breakdown of the
damages being demanded by the grieving husband includes general damages in the
sum of N100m for the loss of Sabina as a result of the defendants’ alleged
negligence.
Others are:
"General damages in the sum of N50m for the pain, discomfort, emotional
and psychological trauma the plaintiff and his children have been subjected to
for the loss of life of their breadwinner, being the plaintiff’s wife, as a
result of the defendants’ negligence.
"Special
damages in the sum of N7m, being medical bills and other expenses incurred by
the plaintiff as well as N2m, being the cost of the suit."
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