The family of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke says it is consulting lawyers and considering all legal options available to address alleged unprofessional conduct by the medical practitioners at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital.
The younger brother of the deceased, Dr Deji Adeleke, said this while addressing journalists over the statements made about the autopsy by the Chief Medical Director of LAUTECH, Professor Wale Lasisi, when he appeared before coroner inquest.
Doctor Adeleke faulted the decision of the LAUTECH CMD to furnish the inquest with the details of the autopsy report without first giving a copy of the report to the family which ordered the autopsy in the first case.
He added that even after the CMD had told the coroner the cause of Senator Adeleke’s death, no copy of the report was given to the family.
Doctor Adeleke said, “We state as at now, the family has not received the autopsy report and the family will not engage in speculations over its contents.
“However, it has come to the knowledge of the family that the Chief Medical Director of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, on May 15, 2017, appeared before the Kangaroo Inquest set up by the Osun State Government and gave evidence of the cause of death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke, when neither the family has been briefed nor the autopsy report released.”
According to him, this is despite the promise by the CMD that the autopsy report will get to the family on May 15.
He said, “On the 9th of May, 2017, the family requested the autopsy report after the expiration of the agreed two weeks’ period for completion of same. The CMD, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, who claimed to be away in Abuja at the time, confirmed that the Autopsy report was ready and that a copy was with the Chief Pathologist at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital.
“Alarmed at such a position, the family queried why a copy given to the family that ordered the autopsy was only conducted at the Nigeria Police Forensic lab in Lagos. The CMD then promise to send a copy of the Autopsy Report to the family upon his arrival from Abuja on Monday, May 15th, 2017.
“The family waited all day on the said Monday for the CMD to revert as promised to no avail. The family then called the CMD at 5:14 pm of the same Monday, 15th May, 2017, to remind him to send the autopsy as promised. The CMD changed the story again, saying that the report was not ready.
“When asked by the family for when the report will be finally ready, he responded, ‘As soon as possible’.
“Unknown to the family this same CMD had already appeared and testified under oath before the Osun State Inquest earlier the same day where he testified conclusively that the cause if the sudden death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke was as a result of ” banned injection overdose” given to him, relying on 3rd party “here say” instead of a forensic Toxicology report.”
As a result, Doctor Adeleke said the family has rejected the report and would take necessary action.
“The Adeleke family hereby puts it on record, that based on the high level of unprofessional conduct already displayed by CMD of LAUTECH, the integrity of the “Yet to be ready” autopsy must have been seriously compromised,” he said.
“Finally, the Adeleke family is consulting lawyers and is considering all legal options available to address this unfortunate and unprofessional conduct exhibited by the medical practitioners in this matter.”
