‘Madina Polyclinic killed my wife, baby’

When Cynthia Nuwosu, an expectant mother, went to the Madina Polyclinic to give birth, it was the hope of her husband and her children that the family would welcome its seventh member, but that was not to be as both mother and child died.

The sudden death of the woman and her unborn baby at the Madina (Kekle) Polyclinic on June 18, 2015 has set Bernard Otu, the widower, and the medical officers of the clinic on a collision course.

The aggrieved husband is threatening to travel the full length to seek justice for what he described as professional negligence on the part of the officers. 

He said the circumstance surrounding the death his 38-year-old wife, a trader and a mother of four, smacks of unprofessionalism that should not pass without thorough investigation, if the precious lives of pregnant women who also intend to give birth in the facility were to be saved.

“The events that led to the death of my otherwise hale and hearty wife smacks of carele