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The Liberia Medical and Dental Council (LMDC), with support from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), is interrogating a Congolese medical Doctor here, NGOY-MULUME Thadee, in the death of a 21-year-old patient, Isaiah Benedicto Williams.

By: Emmanuel Wise Jipoh 

Monrovia, Liberia, January 13, 2025, – The Liberia Medical and Dental Council (LMDC) with support from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) commences investigation here into allegations of medical malpractice and wrongful death of 21-year-old Isaiah Benedicto Williams, during a medical procedure at St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital in Monrovia.

The LMDC, through its Register-General, Dr. Augustine G. Quiah, Friday, January 10, 2025, disclosed that it is investigating a doctor of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital, identified as Doctor Papy NGOY-MULUME Thadee, for wrongful medical procedure, causing the death of a student, after the deceased’s family filed a complaint of Medical Malpractice.

According to Doctor Quiah, it is the duty and responsibility of every patient in the country to submit an application for an unsatisfactory medical procedure at any hospital, leading to death or casualty, to ensure justice.

Dr. Thadee, born in Congo but is a Senegalese-trained Pediatric, is allegedly accused of administering wrongful medication to the late Williams, a 2022 graduate of St. Edward Catholic High School and candidate for enrolment at Lay Adventist University of Kigali, Rwanda.

The New Dawn gathered Dr. Ngoymulum Thadee was one of the pediatricians, surgeons, or foreign doctors hired by the Ministry of Health, Republic of Liberia.

As usual, he was in a private medical practice and was hired by Saint Joseph’s Catholic Hospital as its main doctor when the incident occurred.

Further investigation indicates that Doctor Thadee was required to perform surgery on the late Student Isaiah B. Williams, but the operation did not occur as planned. But he died after an injection was administered to him in preparation for the surgery.

This paper also learned that the Congolese specialist wasn’t the one who injected the patient multiple times but one of the nurses at the hospital. However, Doctor Thadee was head of the surgery team working on the late Isaiah Williams.

Prior to his sudden death, the deceased had been scheduled to travel to Rwanda this January 2025 for studies.

The late Williams had visited the hospital to treat a swollen cele or hydrocele testis, a condition he had been suffering from before his admittance by the hospital.

His family blames his death on an overdose of wrongful injection by the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital, as preliminary investigation shows there was no surgery performed on their son that could have had him bleeding to succumb to death.

Doctor Thadee, who is said to be in his late 30s, ignored NEW DAWN’s queries as part of a preliminary investigation into the death of the late Isaiah Benedicto Williams, maintaining that it is too early to comment on what transpired that led to the demise of the patient.

The hospital administration also refused to respond to questions, pending investigation.

Meanwhile, the ethics and disciplinary committee chair of the Liberia Medical and Dental Council, Professor Peter S. Coleman, assures the council’s commitment to an independent, fair, and transparent investigation. 

Dr. Coleman, also a former minister of health of Liberia, consoles the bereaved family for the loss of their son while urging the public to remain calm as the investigation progresses, reassuring them the process will be thorough and credible.

The LMDC is responsible for regulating medical activities and investigating malpractices or negligence in the profession to bring the culprits to book.

The late 21-year-old Williams, a 2022 graduate of St. Edward Catholic School here, reportedly died on Friday, January 3, 2025, at 12:46 pm in the operation theater of the Catholic Hospital. Still, the family alleges negligence by the hospital,l which led to the death of their son, accusing the institution of administering an overdose injection.

An investigation by the NEW DAWN indicates that the late Williams, who was admitted at St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital, allegedly died after being overdosed with the wrong medication, leaving him shivering, itching his private parts, and ejaculating several times before succumbing to death.

“Academic Gladiator,” as he was affectionately called, the 21-year-old promising student, was said to be the only child of his mother.

Family sources say he was never sick prior to his admittance at the hospital, suspecting that he might have died of the wrong injection administered to him.

In a touching story, the family says the late Williams allegedly overdosed on the wrong medication without even going through surgery for which he was admitted at the hospital.

“Catholic hospital killed my son, my only son; they killed my only flourishing fruit, a child who had begun making me proud, and had graduated from the St. Edward Catholic School with seven honors”, Veronica Tayeah, a weeping mother, narrates.

“They killed my son, my only child. I don’t know what kind of injection they gave him, but when I asked Doctor Thaddle, he said they did not do the operation. His skin was not cut. There was no mark of razor blade to say he bled or they performed a surgery that caused his death; nothing of such was done on him. But they killed my son”, she continues in tears.

According to Madam Tayeah, who is a volunteer guidance counsellor of the Ministry of Education (MOE) assigned in Clay, Bomi County, she was allegedly asked by the hospital to sign a possibility casualty form, which didn’t provide death option, but potential wounds, major injury, intestine problem, prior to her son’s admission in the operation theater of the Catholic Hospital. Editing by Jonathan Browne

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