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Fairview Hospital Explains How Pregnant Female Patient Died
The Management of Fairview Hospital in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, has explained how a pregnant female patient died in their facility.
Fairview Hospital gave the explanation in a statement signed by its Admin Manager, Mrs.K. Osharechiren.
Reacting to media reports, the hospital said the pregnant female patient was admitted in their facility at 3:30am on 13/8/2020 in acute distress.
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Accordng to the hospital, “Patient had severe hypertension and was known to have other comorbidities requiring medications that made her prone to vascular thromboembolism.
“Indeed at surgery, she was found to have an ischaemic and gangrenous uterus with a massive intra-abdominal bleed. The fetus was dead.
“Being Jehovah’s Witnesses, all efforts to persuade her husband and family members to accept blood transfusion that could have saved her life, failed.
“The patient lapsed into irreversible shock and was declared dead 10 hours post surgery. Our heart goes out to the family of the bereaved.”