Negligence: Medical Tribunal Suspends 5 Doctors For Two Years

                    

Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has suspended four doctors for three, six, six, and six months individually making it one of its most stringent judgments in recent history.

Luck had ran out of the doctors including,  Temitope Gabriel Onile, Nzurumike Charles Nnanna, Danmusa Ademu Ochala and Omotayo Oluwadamilola Akinro  who all work at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja were arraigned on the charges of negligence to duty between 7th and 8th, 2012.
"For failure to see a patient as often as his/her medical condition wants, you doctors Onile is hereby suspended for three months, Nnanna six months, Ochala six months, and Akinro six months,’ the Tribunal chairman, Jonathan Azubuike ruled.

According to the charges, the doctors were on call but failed to attend promptly in the management of one Mrs Eleojo Justina Collins who was admitted under their care and required urgent surgical intervention until the patient died.

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