A Lagos resident, Agnes Oladehinde, has publicly condemned the staff at Gbagada General Hospital, alleging that their negligence led to the tragic death of her newborn nephew. She took to social media to narrate the ordeal her family faced when her pregnant sister, Susan Okolie, was admitted for childbirth on February 9.
In a video shared online and reviewed by Chronicles Reporters on Sunday, Agnes detailed how errors by hospital staff—from incorrect documentation to mishandling of medical procedures—ultimately resulted in the infant’s death. She claimed that doctors failed to inform her sister about the need for a cesarean section (CS), only for them to later insist that she had refused the procedure.
According to Agnes, even after the baby’s death, the negligence persisted. When the family went to collect the infant’s body, they discovered that the hospital had mislabeled it under another family’s name.
“My name is Agnes Oladehinde, and I am Susan Okolie’s sister. We have been in this hospital since Sunday, and all we have faced are terrible mistakes at every unit we visited,” she stated.
She recounted an instance where a lab attendant rejected a sample she had taken for testing, saying it was improperly labeled. She also mentioned that after her sister gave birth on Tuesday morning, the hospital provided them with forms for medical tests for the newborn—but the forms bore the name of another baby.
“This morning, we were informed that our baby didn’t survive,” she continued. “When we went to the mortuary to claim the body, the name on the baby was Adefisan instead of Okolie. This is gross negligence by both the hospital staff and management.”
Agnes further alleged that doctors never properly communicated with them about her sister’s medical condition. “They never advised us on any procedure. The moment she gave birth, they started asking why she didn’t opt for CS. They claimed she refused, but my sister was never asked in the first place,” she insisted.
She clarified that her family had no religious objections to medical procedures and were open to any treatment that could have saved the baby’s life.
Efforts by Chronicles Reporters to get a response from the Lagos State Ministry of Health were unsuccessful. Calls to the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, went unanswered, and a text message sent to him had not been responded to at the time of filing this report.
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