The death of Mrs. Charity Unachukwu at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, after what her family describes as 12 hours of bureaucratic delay and neglect, is more than a personal tragedy. It is a mirror held up to Nigeria, reflecting the decay of our health system and the betrayal of citizens by institutions meant to preserve life.
Hospitals are supposed to be sanctuaries of healing. Instead, stories like Charity’s turn them into graveyards where negligence, incompetence, and indifference claim more lives than the ailments patients bring. It is telling and damning, that testimonies of other families quickly followed, each recounting a similar experience of abandonment at UNTH. This is no coincidence. It is a pattern.
Relatives demand justice as calls mount for urgent reform in Nigeria’s collapsing health system
The shockwaves from the death of Mrs. Charity Unachukwu at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, continue to reverberate as more families step forward with their own harrowing experiences of neglect at the federal facility, reports ITREALMS.
Earlier, ITREALMS had reported the testimony of Mrs. Phina Unachukwu Ezeagwu, who accused UNTH of abandoning her sister to die after more than 12 hours without life-saving blood transfusion.
The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, has pledged a full-scale investigation into allegations of negligence linked to the death of Mrs. Charity Unachukwu, who was brought to the facility on September 20, 2025, reports ITREALMS.
In a statement signed by the hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Uchelue Boniface, UNTH extended its condolences to the Unachukwu family and acknowledged the grief expressed in the widely circulated account of the incident.
