THE CONCOCTION THAT KILLS...

The Management of the Bayelsa-owned Diette-Koki Hospital in
Yenagoa, have absolved the medical workers in the hospital of
complicity in the death of an 8years old girl, Inato Sunday, over
alleged power failure, saying the deceased died due to the
unorthodox administration of a strange concoction of local gin and
bitter leaf.

The Director of Medical and Dental Services of the Hospital, Dr.
Solomon Sagbe, while reacting to the alleged claims absolved the
hospital of blame and insisted that the administration of
traditional concoction of local gin and bitter leaf led to the death
of the girl.
“It is not true that the actions of the doctors on duty led to the
death of the girl. It was the administration of strange concoction
by the father of the deceased that resulted in serious stomach
pain.
“The girl became unconscious. After they became aware of the
state of the girl, they forced her to take mixture of pap and palm
oil.”
The deceased had two episodes of generalized tonic colonic seizures,
each lasting about five minutes incontinence,”but there was no
prior history of fever or neck stiffness.
Seizures were said to have occurred spontaneously in the morning
of the same day and shortly after she was given a concoction of
bitter leaf juice and local gin for stomach pains