The Enugu State Police Command has vowed to prosecute the branch chairman of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Dr Jide Uzoigwe over alleged manslaughter.
Stating the reason for his possible arrest, the police said he has failed to provide a certain Doctor Chibuoke accused of manslaughter on Thursday.
NIGERIACRIME gathered that Chibuoke and another staff of the hospital who is a nurse, administered a drug to a patient, Janet Nwosu, which later killed her.
The incident reportedly happened on October 18, 2022 at the hospital premises.
Members of the late Nwosu family alleged that the doctor and nurse injected their daughter with a drug that killed her in less than five minutes.
The family, which hails from Amaeta village in Mgbowo, Awgu local government of Enugu state said the health practitioners were not the ones assigned to take care of the deceased at the hospital.
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The Divisional Police Officer of Ozalla Police Division had earlier wrote the UNTH Chief Medical Director, Dr Obinna Onodugo, on October 20, to produce the said Doctor Chibuoke but he allegedly ignored the police request.
The hospital was also said to have told the daughter of the deceased to provide a court affidavit indicating that the family will not pursue the case further before releasing the corpse.
The case was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department last week Thursday.
The Deputy Commissioner of police in-charge of State CID, Fidelis Ogarabe ordered Uzoigwe to produce the accused hospital workers by Thursday.
Sources in the meeting said the DCP threatened to arrest and prosecute the ARD-UNTH president for obstruction of investigation in the manslaughter case if he failed to produce the accused doctor and the nurse on Thursday, November 10, 2022.
Miss Augustina Nwaosu, daughter of the late Janet, who was taking care of her mother before her unfortunate demise, stated that the hospital instead of showing remorse and empathy for the alleged killing of her mother, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Obinna Onodugo, invited the police to arrest her for complaining and demanding justice.
Although she admitted that she broke glasses of two windows in the hospital, she said it was done in anger and she was ready to replace the damaged windows.
She explained that the said windows were damaged because one of the health practitioners allegedly responsible for her mother’s death was hiding in a room and refused to issue them death certificate to take the body of her mother home for burial till 6:30pm even after they had paid every bill the hospital gave them.