During an operation to remove her appendix, a doctor in Benue state is accused of removing the ovaries of an 18-year-old girl named Dooyum Lanna.
Dooyum, who began menstruating at the age of 14, began enduring stomach pain each time her period arrived by the time she turned 16 in May 2019, according to SaharaReporters.
Her father, 72-year-old Kparevfa Lanna, was concerned about the issue and took her to an acknowledged medical doctor named Agber Kwende in the Gaav Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State for urgent treatment.
Unfortunately, events quickly followed, with the doctor allegedly removing the girl’s ovaries and damaging other key organs in her reproductive system, leaving her with an even bigger dilemma to deal with after that period.
She complained that she felt “sick all the time. Apart from headache, I still experience abdominal pain.”
Dooyum, a Senior Secondary School 1 student at Rose Asase College in Gboko East, Benue State, has been experiencing the absence of menstruation and has been frequently feeling ill for more than two years. Her fallopian tube was already shrinking, according to a recent diagnostic and scans, indicating that she may never be able to conceive.
She said, “My education has been affected also. I feel sad all the time. I cannot have kids in the future, so what is my essence in life. I feel like ending it.”
Her father, a farmer, described how the issue has affected the entire family, saying that he has spent over N100,000 trying to find a solution to his daughter’s health problem without success. The police, he claims, have thwarted his efforts to achieve justice for his child and have the quack doctor punished for his carelessness by granting him bail and reportedly collaborating with him.
He said, “All the time we have gone back to the quack doctor to complain of the damage he had done, he chased us away. We have been to more than four hospitals looking for solution and they keep telling us that her ovaries had been removed. After we reported the matter to the police, the doctor was briefly arrested but released the following day.
“Since that period, the police have not been clear on the way forward. We want justice for our daughter. Her future has been affected, she must be compensated for what the man did to her.”
The doctor, Kwende, refused to comment on the matter when approached by our journalist.
Despite the fact that a formal complaint had been filed at the Gboko Central Police Station, the state command had yet to launch an inquiry.
