Court awards N10.2m against ATBUTH over pregnant woman’s death

The Bauchi State High Court has awarded N10.2 cardinal successful damages against the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi, implicit the decease of a large woman, Zaliha Yahaya Muhammad, pursuing what the tribunal recovered to beryllium aesculapian negligence.

Justice Kunaza N. Hamidu of High Court No. 2 delivered the judgement on Monday in favour of the claimant, Adamu Yusuf Misau, the deceased’s husband, who instituted the suit aft his woman died successful August 2020.

According to the claimant, Zaliha was initially taken to a superior healthcare centre successful Bauchi metropolis earlier being referred to ATBUTH for specialised attraction owed to pregnancy-related complications.

Counsel for the claimant, Auwal Ibrahim, told the tribunal that doctors astatine the infirmary carried retired country connected the deceased but aboriginal informed the household that the surgical coiled had not been stitched earlier referring her to different hospital, allegedly due to the fact that aesculapian instrumentality astatine ATBUTH had developed faults.

As portion of the evidence, the claimant presented a handwritten referral enactment and argued that the deceased was near unattended for respective hours contempt her captious condition.