Late Mrs Ogechi Okolo
Asaba/Nigeria: In a day the Delta State Governor complained of the alarming numbers of the positive cases of the Novel Coronavirus pandemic in the state, a family had accused the medical workers at the isolation/treatment centres of not attending to the needs of those brought to the centres for treatment, as the their inactions had caused the family the death of the breadwinner of the home, Mrs Ogechi Okolo, on Saturday, June 27, 2020.
In a graphic narration of what transpired, Okolo Divine Bliss, a 300 Level Law Student, in a Private University said her mother was taken to the Asaba Specialist Hospital, and kept unattended by the doctor, despite the fact that she had not be confirmed COVID-19, positive.
“My name is Okolo Divine Bliss and I lost my mum today the 27th of June 2020.”
“My mum has been sick for a while now and nurses and doctors have been coming over to the house to administer treatment to her and by God’s grace she was responding fine to it. Some symptoms of the sickness were coughing, weakness and she also felt pains. “On the 25th June 2020 we decided to move her to the New General Hospital, Asaba, she walked down through our house stairs all by herself even though she was weak.” 
Late Mrs Ogechi Okolo
“My Dad and my siblings got to the hospital with her and they refused to administer treatment because the doctors were afraid that it was Covid-19 as everyone will suspect. They abandoned her in pains for over an hour before they decided that they are not going to treat her except she Isolated in their Isolation center.”
“I always said that they shouldn’t have moved her there cause my mum hadn’t gone anywhere to have Covid-19 even throughout the time my sister who has health issues was taking care of her at home she didn’t possess any sign of transfer from my mom so I was fully sure within myself that it was not Covid-19.
’But since the doctors and everyone refused to treat her we allowed her to be isolated and she was put on oxygen, because her oxygen level had become low at this stage.”
“They isolated her in the Center and she was there without no good attention which I can swear to because we spoke to her regularly and she said no doctor or anyone had gone to see her.”
“Then Until the Friday, 26th of June 2020, my Dad went with my brother to take things for her at the Isolation Center. They agreed with my dad that since the case was not yet confirmed and the test result was yet to be out that he could stay and watch her and if anything goes wrong he could call them on phone from the room which he regularly did but they did not respond to him fast whenever she did.”
“We stayed awake at home throughout the night praying for the life of my mum and talked to my brother who was there with her regularly and he always said that no one was coming to check on her, despite CCTV camera in their Isolation rooms.”
Whenever we call the doctors from home they would say that they have gone to check her and she’s okay but my brother would still say no one has come and she is very weak and breathing slowly.”
“This situation of calling and lying by the Covid-19 doctors happened for over 1hour.”
“This morning at around 5 am when the calls and lies of the doctors that said she was doing fine and attending to her came in, we decided to go to the hospital ourselves since my brother was crying bitterly that mom is lying dead.”
“When we got there around After 5am we drove to the Covid-19 area and kept on screaming that they should go and look at my mum but you know what, we were there for over an hour no single Doctor came out to speak to us and these were the same doctors that were telling us that she’s fine and taken care off while we were at home.”
Out of bitterness I moved into the Covid-19 ward which they did not lock well and was screaming for help of the doctors and no one still came out for over an hour.”
“I went into her room that has A CCTV camera where they monitor everything from and started praying but to no avail and no one was still responding to us.”
“Patients were coming out of their rooms in the ward to complain. Why would the doctors be so wicked hearing my family’s voice screaming.”
“Before then, they did an X Ray which showed she had acute pneumonia which could have obviously been the cause of the Covid-19 symptoms she was experiencing but the doctors were not going to attend to her properly until the result was out and now my mum is dead.”
