Ibadan business woman calls out UCH, over alleged negligence that led to death of her 5 month old baby (READ FULL TRAGIC STORY)

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A grieving mother has taken to social media to accuse the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, of alleged medical negligence that she claims led to the death of her 5-month-old son.

In a post shared on her Instagram account, @ms.abim, the businesswoman and mother of twins alleged that her baby was given an overdose of medication for 17 consecutive days while receiving treatment at the hospital.

According to her, her son’s cardiologist prescribed 2.5 mg of Captopril daily to manage his heart condition. However, she alleged that an intern pharmacist dispensed 4 mL daily of a solution with a 6.25 mg/5 mL concentration—equivalent to 5 mg daily, twice the prescribed dose.

She claimed she had questioned the intern about the dosage but was reassured that it was correct. The error, according to her, went unnoticed for over two weeks until she observed that her baby had reduced urination, eventually going 12 hours without passing urine. She said her son’s health deteriorated rapidly thereafter.

The heartbroken mother expressed outrage over what she described as the hospital’s lack of accountability and compassion. She alleged that despite bringing the matter to the attention of the Head of the Pharmacy Department, there was no formal acknowledgment of the mistake, no apology, and no urgent response.

“To anyone foolish enough to blame me: Here is the doctor prescription and what was dispensed

I am a grieving mother not a pharmacist, not a doctor.

I trusted UCH Ibadan to follow my son’s cardiologist’s order: 2.5mg daily.

Instead, an incompetent intern dispensed double the dose (4ml instead of 2ml) for 17 days.

When I questioned him, he assured me it was what the doctor prescribed it wasn’t.

Nobody noticed the error until I did, when my baby’s urination reduced drastically, and his health started failing.

This is MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE, not parental negligence.

If you have the audacity to blame me for trusting trained professionals, you are no better than the ones who killed my child.

My son is dead because of their carelessness and your ignorance won’t change that.

“Seventeen chances to catch a mistake and they failed him every single day. This is not just a mistake, it’s gross negligence,” she wrote. “I’m sharing this not just for my son, but for every baby whose life is treated like a statistic. This cannot continue.”