Father Accuses Edo Hospital Of Infecting Toddler With HIV Through Contaminated Blood Transfusion.
The facility, identified as Safe Bliss Medical Centre, is located opposite Oliha Primary School on Siluko Road in Benin City, Edo State.
A distraught father, Praise Mumbor, has accused a private medical facility in Edo State of infecting his one-year-nine-month-old son, Jeremiah Mumbor, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) through a tainted blood transfusion.
The facility, identified as Safe Bliss Medical Centre, is located opposite Oliha Primary School on Siluko Road in Benin City, Edo State.
In an exclusive account made available to SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the aggrieved father narrated how his child—previously healthy and HIV-negative—fell critically ill on February 6, 2025. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors claimed the boy’s blood level had dropped dangerously low.
“I offered to donate my own blood for my son, but the doctors said no one was available to test me and that the case was an emergency. They insisted on purchasing blood from a blood bank,” he said.
The father said he paid ₦40,000 for the transfusion, which was carried out immediately. The baby was discharged two days later after receiving two rounds of transfused blood.
But what was initially assumed to be a life-saving procedure soon spiralled into a nightmare.
Recurring Illness and Devastating Diagnosis
Four months later, on May 5, 2025, the boy fell sick again and was taken back to the same hospital. According to the father, the hospital again claimed the child was a “sickler” (someone with sickle cell disease) and severely anaemic, necessitating another blood transfusion.
“Just two weeks after the second transfusion, my son fell ill again. He was admitted to the same hospital where he received treatment for four to five days with no improvement,” he added.
Eventually, the hospital’s proprietor reportedly advised the family to seek advanced care at the Edo Specialist Hospital, confessing she had exhausted all options.
The facility, identified as Safe Bliss Medical Centre, is located opposite Oliha Primary School on Siluko Road in Benin City, Edo State.
A distraught father, Praise Mumbor, has accused a private medical facility in Edo State of infecting his one-year-nine-month-old son, Jeremiah Mumbor, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) through a tainted blood transfusion.
The facility, identified as Safe Bliss Medical Centre, is located opposite Oliha Primary School on Siluko Road in Benin City, Edo State.
In an exclusive account made available to SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the aggrieved father narrated how his child—previously healthy and HIV-negative—fell critically ill on February 6, 2025. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors claimed the boy’s blood level had dropped dangerously low.
“I offered to donate my own blood for my son, but the doctors said no one was available to test me and that the case was an emergency. They insisted on purchasing blood from a blood bank,” he said.
The father said he paid ₦40,000 for the transfusion, which was carried out immediately. The baby was discharged two days later after receiving two rounds of transfused blood.
But what was initially assumed to be a life-saving procedure soon spiralled into a nightmare.
Recurring Illness and Devastating Diagnosis
Four months later, on May 5, 2025, the boy fell sick again and was taken back to the same hospital. According to the father, the hospital again claimed the child was a “sickler” (someone with sickle cell disease) and severely anaemic, necessitating another blood transfusion.
“Just two weeks after the second transfusion, my son fell ill again. He was admitted to the same hospital where he received treatment for four to five days with no improvement,” he added.
Eventually, the hospital’s proprietor reportedly advised the family to seek advanced care at the Edo Specialist Hospital, confessing she had exhausted all options.
Father Accuses Edo Hospital Of Infecting Toddler With HIV Through Contaminated Blood Transfusion.
The facility, identified as Safe Bliss Medical Centre, is located opposite Oliha Primary School on Siluko Road in Benin City, Edo State.
A distraught father, Praise Mumbor, has accused a private medical facility in Edo State of infecting his one-year-nine-month-old son, Jeremiah Mumbor, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) through a tainted blood transfusion.
The facility, identified as Safe Bliss Medical Centre, is located opposite Oliha Primary School on Siluko Road in Benin City, Edo State.
In an exclusive account made available to SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the aggrieved father narrated how his child—previously healthy and HIV-negative—fell critically ill on February 6, 2025. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors claimed the boy’s blood level had dropped dangerously low.
“I offered to donate my own blood for my son, but the doctors said no one was available to test me and that the case was an emergency. They insisted on purchasing blood from a blood bank,” he said.
The father said he paid ₦40,000 for the transfusion, which was carried out immediately. The baby was discharged two days later after receiving two rounds of transfused blood.
But what was initially assumed to be a life-saving procedure soon spiralled into a nightmare.
Recurring Illness and Devastating Diagnosis
Four months later, on May 5, 2025, the boy fell sick again and was taken back to the same hospital. According to the father, the hospital again claimed the child was a “sickler” (someone with sickle cell disease) and severely anaemic, necessitating another blood transfusion.
“Just two weeks after the second transfusion, my son fell ill again. He was admitted to the same hospital where he received treatment for four to five days with no improvement,” he added.
Eventually, the hospital’s proprietor reportedly advised the family to seek advanced care at the Edo Specialist Hospital, confessing she had exhausted all options.
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