Admin l Sunday, September 30, 2018
LAGOS, Nigeria – A Lagos couple, has filed a suit against an hospital in Lagos alleging negligence which had resulted in the death of their baby at childbirth and praying the court for the sum of three hundred and sixty million naira as damages. The couple , Mr Eyitayo Mumuney and his wife Stella Mumuney, in their writ of summon with No. LD/ADR/1825/18 and filed at the Lagos high court, Igbosere, Lagos, West Africa, is asking for the sum of N360 million against the hospital and its management.
The claimants alleged, that the hospital, Reddington Multispecialist Hospital Limited, caused the death of their baby at birth for their failure to provide adequate facilities during the birth of their baby. ” It took over four hours from the time the baby was brought out of the second claimant womb for the defendants to take the baby to another hospital, Paelon Medical. And within the four hours of waiting, the baby was left unattended by the defendants”.
The claimants also indicated in the statement of claim that prior to filing the action in court, a letter stating the pains suffered by the couple as a result of the loss of their baby was sent to the hospital with the hope that they would politely apologized but they never did.
“By a letter dated February 16, 2018 the claimants through their counsel, DNL Partners, wrote to the defendants identifying measures that may be put in place by the defendants to correct the wrong they had caused the claimants. The defendants ignored the claimants’ letter”.
Therefore, the claimants felt that the defendants had breached in their duty to the claimants and are praying the court for an order directing the defendants to build a centre and to be named: Axella Eyitayo Center for Reproductive and Baby Care.
The couple are also asking for the sum of one hundred and twenty million naira on general damages and another sum of one hundred and twenty million naira as compensation for aggravated damages for the loss of their baby which they alleged was occasioned by the hospital negligence.
The claimants are also asking the court to grant them another one hundred and twenty million naira as being exemplary damages as a result of the death of the baby at childbirth.
However, the matter which has not been fixed for hearing, have been screened for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
