Tag: neonatal death
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Medical racism: Canada-based Nigerian nurse narrates how negligence led to son’s death
A Canada-based Nigerian nurse Birgit Uwaila Umaigba, is mourning the loss of her son David, whose death was due to the negligence of healthcare givers in an Ontario hospital. Umaigba said on her birthday, at only 18 weeks of her pregnancy journey, her water broke prematurely (also known as the prelabour rupture of membranes) and…
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FACT CHECK: Did power outage result in death of 14 babies at UPTH?
Over the weekend, social media was awash with a report that fourteen (14) babies in the neonatal unit of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Rivers State died as a result of an epileptic power supply. Findings by TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) revealed that the report titled: “Doctors suspend surgery procedures as 14 babies die…