There has been growing public concern regarding the ethical behaviours of healthcare professionals. Complaints of poor ethical conduct and rise in litigation against healthcare practitioners is not uncommon.
Every profession or calling has ethical code, which are more often than not universally observed, and the medical profession is not an exception.
Penultimate week ago, a Lagos High court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square sentenced a medical Doctor, Dr. Ejike Ferdinand Orji, to one year imprisonment for causing grievous harm, negligence and endangering the life of a 16-year-old patient. Dr.
Court documents revealed that on Thursday July 26, 2018, the victim, Master Somtochukwu Ezi-Ashi sustained an injury on the basketball court at the University of Lagos Sports Centre while playing basketball with his mates. He was taken to Excel Children Medical Centre, located at 45B Corporation Drive, Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi Lagos, at about 11:30 am by one Mr. Emmanuel, a security detail attached to the Ezi-Ashis and one Mr.
About 45 minutes later, Mrs. Ezi-Ashi was informed by Dr. Orji that Somi had been sedated and that she could go in and see him. Mrs. Ezi-Ashi found Somi deeply asleep with a synthetic and thermal Plaster cast covering his entire left leg from his toes to his upper thigh. Dr. Orji did not obtain Mrs. Ezi-Ashi’s consent, since her son is still a minor, to sedate him. Neither did he tell her that “stabilising” the leg meant Plaster cast.
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