Police Drag Doctor To Court Over Alleged Negligence

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Paul Iyoghojie

Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, at Ikoyi, Lagos have dragged Dr. Ejike Orji, 59, attached to Excel Medical Center at Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court for negligence.

He was accused of using a razor blade to inflict deep cut on his patient Somi Ezi Ashi’s injury, which caused him more complications and grievous bodily harm.

The harm led his parents to fly him to a specialist hospital in the United States of America for treatment.

A Police source alleged that the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Police Special Fraud Unit, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde directed his team led by DSP Mohammed Abdukareem to arrest the accused following a petition by the parents of the victim.

Orji was charged before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos on a one-count charge of using blade to inflict deep cut on the knee of his patient, Somi Ezi Ashi which caused him grievous harm.

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Police Counsel, Amedu Adoga informed the court in charge No Q/56/2018 that Orji committed the offence on 25 July at his Excel Medical Center at Dophin Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Adoga told the court that trouble started for the accused when the victim was rushed to his clinic for first aid treatment following the injury he sustained at a football pitch.

Adoga said that instead of the accused who trained as a General Pediatric Surgeon to stabilize the health of the victim and refer him to orthopedic surgeons who specialized in the treatment of the injury, he continued to treat him in his hospital and in the process negligently used a razor blade to inflict deep cut on the victim’s injury.

This resulted in complications which made the parents of the victim to rush him to a hospital in the United States of America where doctors are battling to save his life.

He said the offence Orji committed was punishable under section 243 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence in the open court and Magistrate O.O. Otitoju granted him bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till 26 September, 2017 for mention.

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