- LAUTECH Teaching Hospital CMD To Be Sued Over ‘Unprofessional Conduct’
The family of the late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke has declared that it did not and still does not intend to fight anyone over the passing of the late hero of the family.
It equally added that neither has it been briefed nor received the autopsy report of the deceased saying that with the recent development the family doubts the integrity of the “yet to be ready” autopsy.
Addressing a press conference in Ede, on Wednesday, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke who spoke on behalf of the family stressed that the family has not received the Autopsy report and that the family will not engage in speculations over its contents.
He said the family was, however, surprised to hear that the Chief Medical Director of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Prof. Akeem Lasisi who appeared before the Coroner inquest set up by the Osun state government and gave evidence of the cause of the death of the senator without the knowledge of the family.
His words: “The Adeleke family in submission to the sovereignty of Almighty God did not and still does not intend to fight anyone over the passing of the late hero of the family but only desires to know the cause(s) of his sudden death which informed the ordering of the autopsy by the family.
“On the 9th of May, 2017, the family requested for the autopsy report after the expiration of the agreed two weeks period for completion of same. The CMD, who claimed to be away in Abuja at the time confirmed that the autopsy report was ready and that a copy was already with the Osun state police command while another copy was with the Chief Pathologist at LAUTECH teaching hospital.
“Alarmed at such a position, the family queried why a copy of the autopsy report would be with the police command without any copy given to the family that ordered the autopsy in the first instance.”
Adeleke further said that the CMD later changed the story that the story was only conducted at the Nigeria Police Forensic lab in Lagos and promised to send a copy of the autopsy report to the family on May 15th.
He said that the family expected the CMD to send the report on Monday 15th but he said that the report was not ready and that the report will be finally ready as soon as possible.
“Unknown to the family this same CMD had already appeared and testified under oath before the Osun state kangaroo inquest earlier the same day where he testified conclusively that the cause(s) of the sudden death of Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke was as a result of “banned injection overdose” given to him, relying on 3rd party “hearsay” instead of a Forensic Toxicology report. The CMD deliberately did not disclose to the inquest that the autopsy report was not ready.”
The family, however, vowed to take legal action to address the “unfortunate and unprofessional conduct exhibited by the medical practitioners in this matter.”
“The Adeleke family hereby puts it on record that based on the high level of unprofessional conduct already displayed by the CMD of LAUTECH, the integrity of the “yet to be ready” autopsy must have been seriously compromised.”
Packaged by Bunmi Oladejo
