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The Garki General Hospital, Abuja, has dismissed reviews that it denied corps member, Nkechi Igwetu, therapy after being shot by a police officer.
Concise had on Thursday reported that Igwetu has been reportedly shot lifeless by a trigger-happy police officer, recognized as Benjamin Peters.
Igwetu, who was billed to go out of the obligatory one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), died on Wednesday morning.
However, reacting in a assertion the hospital’s Medical Director, Essen Nyomudim, stated the corps member was introduced in a crucial situation, including that the accident and emergency crew tried their finest to avoid wasting her life.
The assertion reads: “The consideration of Garki Hospital Abuja has been drawn to sure defamatory rumors peddled on the social media on the unlucky incident that occurred to a promising younger girl, Angela Igwetu who was reduce quick on the prime of her life.
“Garki Hospital deeply sympathizes with the household of the deceased, the NYSC and Nigeria as a entire on the lack of Miss Igwetu.
“Garki Hospital needs to state as follows: The purported complicity of Garki Hospital Abuja in denying Miss Igwele therapy and permitting her to bleed to dying whereas asking for a police report is fake and malicious.
“Garki Hospital Abuja doesn't demand for the police report earlier than attending to Trauma Patients at her Accident and Emergency division.
“Garki Hospital doesn't demand fee earlier than stabilizing Trauma Patients. It is a Tradition that we don't compromise.
“To set the data straight, Miss Igwetu was dropped at our hospital at about three.40am on 4th July, 2018 in a very precarious situation. The medical doctors on obligation on the Accident and Emergency unit, together with the guide surgeon on name, battled to offer essential care to avoid wasting her life together with blood transfusions and restricted surgical procedure. This was finished with out fee. Unfortunately, she died regardless of all efforts to avoid wasting her life.
“The purported reviews on the mainstream and social media have been all pushed out with none recourse to verification from Garki Hospital.
“Garki Hospital DEMANDS quick rebuttal of all such reviews from all mainstream and social media WITHIN 48 HOURS in addition to revealed APOLOGY to Garki Hospital for misinforming the general public and publishing MALICIOUS GOSSIP.
“Failure to publish the required rebuttals and apology would compel Garki Hospital to take legal actions against such media houses. We also encourage the media to always take a step further by confirming the information they are fed with before broadcasting it to the general public.”