#Justice4Chisom: Friends and Relatives seek justice after pregnant lady and baby dies unattended to.

The family of late Chisom Jane Anekwe (nee Okereke) and LEAP Africa Alumni are demanding for justice following her unfortunate demise at the Magodo Specialist Hospital.

The young mother of two girls died while giving birth to her third child, a baby boy on April 30th, 2017 after a prolonged labour. Unfortunately, the baby also died. According to her relatives and friends, Chisom was abandoned and left unattended to, whilst experiencing difficult labour and other pregnancy complications.

Read the full story as told by Ahmed Alaga, a member of LEAP Africa. Meanwhile, she will be laid to rest in Awka, Anambra State today, May 16.

"Today we (LEAP Africa Alumni) bury one of our finest member and we can't help but to push out the story of how she died so individuals, families, and our society at large will perhaps take nothing for granted when it comes to women giving birth. Life is sacred and those who treat it with recklessness should be called to order.

During the process of delivering the baby, the placenta got ruptured and the doctors left her like that, no further attendance still. Shortly after, the husband noticed she was swelling up in her stomach area and called the attention of the doctors who said they were getting ready for a surgery, a preparation that took longer than usual.

After waiting in vain for the surgical team, the frustrated husband went furiously to the reception to demand why they were wasting time only to discover the doctor had sneaked out of the hospital under funny pretences. At this point he got other hospital staff to wheel her out of the hospital and in that process Chisom died!

This is the story of most young women who die while giving birth as a result of the callousness, ignorance and carelessness of inexperienced doctors. In this era, we shouldn't be talking about Child and Maternal Mortality especially when it can be avoided. This could have been avoided but it wasn't and now Chisom Jane Anekwe is a victim and has been added to the statistics.


We demand;

1. That Magodo Specialist Hospital, Shangisha, Lagos, be investigated for their actions and the subsequent death of Chisom.

2. That both the Nigerian Medical Association NMA and the Medical and Dentist Council of Nigeria, MDCN ensure that supposed Specialist Hospitals who claim to have a resident Gynecologist are verified.

3. That there be justice for Chisom!

#SaveTheNextVICTIM
#Justice4Chisom
#Fight4OurDaughters

Goodnight my friend.
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