Zicsaloma, a top Nigerian skit maker, has expressed his displeasure over his mother’s alleged “unfair treatment” at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
In a recent Instagram video, the content creator accused the hospital of abandoning his mother, who is battling cancer and undergoing chemotherapy.
Zicsaloma revealed that his mother developed severe complications, prompting the family to rush her back to the hospital for urgent care.
He alleged that upon arrival, the medical staff refused to admit her, leaving her stranded at the hospital gate despite her critical condition.
The skit maker explained that his mother, weakened by chemotherapy, was in a dire state when they took her to a hospital on Orchid Road.
He disclosed that the facility directed them back to LUTH, where she had initially received treatment.
He further alleged that when a doctor was called to assess her condition, the medical professional simply walked away without offering assistance.
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“Our medical team, the doctors of Nigeria, are terrible. You can not believe that my mum, who was diagnosed with cancer, who is undergoing chemotherapy and reacting to it, is at the point of death,” he said.
We stay on the Island. We rushed her to a hospital in Orchid Road, they now said, no, we have to take her back to LUTH, where she took her first chemotherapy shot. Now, we have to take her there. If not, she might not make it.
If you see my mum, she is a skeleton of herself. She might not make it. They gave us a note.
Do you know when we took my mum to LUTH the hospital refused to let her in? They now pointed us to a test centre beside LUTH, where we should go and do it. We now took the result back to the hospital. They refused to let my mum in.
“They locked us outside the gate. They locked my mum and my younger sister, and somebody else I sent to escort them.
“She cannot even stand. I literally backed my mum. I was the one who took her to the Orchid Road hospital. She’s almost lifeless. But these guys are so unsympathetic.
“They say it’s only a doctor that can permit them to open the gate. Imagine leaving a critical patient outside the hospital.
“After the result came out after three hours the doctor said, ‘no, she has to stay outside’. I said, okay, can you go and see my mum to know, so that you will see, maybe you will have pity. This guy literally walked out.”
Zicsaloma, born Aloma Isaac Junior, also criticised the “lack of urgency and compassion in Nigeria’s healthcare system”.
“And sometimes, when we make content about how nonchalant doctors are, how unsympathetic some doctors, you guys will think we are lying,” he added.
“If somebody is ill in this country, the person can just die. You are seeing a lifeless woman. That cannot stand.
“These hospitals, they need to be checked.”
As of the time of this report, LUTH has not issued an official response to the allegations.
