A Nigerian father has accused a Benin hospital of infecting his 19-month-old baby with HIV after two blood transfusions administered by the facility.
The allegation was shared in a post on a popular social media platform, TikTok, showing the father alongside documents purportedly obtained from the hospital.
According to the report, the child was first taken to the hospital on February 6, 2025, over a high fever and critically low blood level.
The hospital recommended an urgent blood transfusion, which the parents agreed to, purchasing blood for ₦40,000.
The family returned to the same hospital on May 3, 2025, when the child’s condition worsened. Once again, doctors advised another transfusion.
The father, identified as Praise Mumbo, said he and his wife offered to donate their own blood, but the hospital declined, citing the absence of medical personnel to screen it.
Instead, they were instructed to purchase another unit of blood for ₦35,000.
Mumbo said the family was later devastated when a doctor at a government hospital diagnosed the baby, Jeremiah, as HIV positive.
He alleged that the infection was contracted during the transfusions carried out at Safe Bliss Medical Center, a private hospital in Benin City, and is now seeking justice for what he described as medical negligence.
As the story spread online, concerned individuals flooded the comment section of the post, expressing outrage and calling for a thorough investigation.
See some reactions below:
Worldchief: “See wahala o, mama and papa get blood them nor collect…”
sheistosan: “why would they transfuse blood without doing hiv test on the blood.”
Blessing stitches ✂️🪡: “Omo watin do he papa and mama blood 😢.”
urhobopiki comedy: “but the woman blood group is AS and the Man is AS please advice the man to leave the woman.”
S🥀U🥹C😪C🫶E🎃S🫂S: “Abeg where the street of this hospital Dey make I avoid qm ooo 😭😭 innocent baby 💔.”
Thrift- by-mummy D: “I believe they swapped the donor if the donor are negative and both parents are negative how come the baby is positive 😏😏.”
xteewhyte: “Lab scientist is not around ,so then who did the other laboratory investigations that was carried out?”
Vivian muna: “So before they store blood for sell inst the hospital they don’t they test the blood if it’s save 🙄😳.”
osato_1: “Advanced and hospitals that know what they are doing only give blood from the blood bank if there is no donor or during emergency, the first move is always to suggest the father donates which kind dead hospital be this, just take a look at this did the government approve this?”
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