Mariam Adebukola 
Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, has weighed in on the case of a 12-year-old boy, Adebola Akin-Bright, with missing intestines at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Ikeja.
Sunday Telegraph reports that Sanwo-Olu reassured the boy’s parents and other worried citizens that he would survive during a visit to the hospital on September 3rd.
Sanwo-Olu announced that the state government would take over all the expenses for the operation to ensure the boy’s life was saved.
Recall that the management of LASUTH had dismissed all allegations that it was culpable in the case of Adebola’s missing intestines.
This comes after the mother of the boy, Deborah Abiodun, said she was thrown into confusion when surgeons at LASUTH informed her that her son’s small intestines were missing after a corrective surgery was performed on him on July 14, 2023.
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She claimed that on June 17 after complications from surgery to treat intestinal obstruction, her son was referred to LASUTH from a private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre, situated at Ile-Epo in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.
However, on Saturday, September 2, the management of LASUTH, via the microblogging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, stated that they did not wilfully remove any organ or structure from Abiodun’s body while performing the corrective surgery.
The management stressed that the hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and highly knowledgeable, skilled and professional medical consultants who would never make such medical errors.
The management added that in addition to the surgery being performed by a skilled paediatric surgeon and her team of specialists, video footage of the procedure was made accessible for additional clarity and to dismiss any form of doubt.
