Adelekes accuse LAUTECH of frustrating efforts at second Opinion on Autopsy

late Senator Isiaka Adeleke

The Adelekes have accused the Osun State government and LAUTECH Teaching Hospital for frustrating efforts at getting a second opinion on the Autopsy of the late senator Isiaka Adeleke to verify the authenticity of the one conducted by LAUTECH.

A statement issued and signed by Dr. Deji Adeleke on behalf of the family states that the hospital had refused to release the remaining sample of tissues taken from the body of the deceased for the first autopsy.

The late senator's  family also said they had not received the report of the autopsy they requested the hospital to carry out on April 23 when Adeleke died.

Deji Adeleke said the family had requested that an autopsy be carried out on Adeleke’s body, but the family said the hospital had refused to give them the result a month after.

He stated that the family took the body of the late senator to the hospital, requested that autopsy be conducted, signed a letter authorisation and paid cash for it.

Deji said Mrs. Dupe Adeleke-Sani - the late senators sister, signed on behalf of the family and paid cash but  was not given a receipt for the payment because the incident happened on a Sunday.

He said the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, assured that the receipt would be issued to the family, but this has not been given.

Debunking the statement made by Dr. Taiwo Solaja-the pathologist, who testified before a coroner that the family did not request an autopsy, Deji said it was incorrect.

The family stated that they did not conduct the business of the autopsy with an individual but with the hospital as an institution, saying the claim of the pathologist,  

He said, ” The Chief Pathologist’s claim that the Adeleke family is not entitled to the autopsy report because the instruction to conduct the autopsy was given to him by his boss and not directly by the family, is unethical, unprofessional and utterly ridiculous, to say the least.

“The Adeleke family will like to put it on record that the Osun State Government-owned LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, has also refused to release the remaining sample of tissues removed from the body of our departed hero, Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, for the conduct of the autopsy that would have allowed the family to seek the conduct of a second autopsy from an ethical, professional and non-political medical facility outside Osun State.

“Adeleke family will like to state again that the family has been unjustifiably denied the report of the autopsy and the remaining sample of tissues taken from the body of late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke by the Osun State Government-owned LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.”