Information about the Inquest
for Bimbo Onanuga, 18th April 2013; 5th July. 2013
Bimbo
Onanuga was a Nigerian woman from Lagos State who died in the Rotunda Hospital
on March 4th, 2010.
Bimbo
was almost thirty weeks pregnant when she was admitted to the Rotunda Hospital
with an intrauterine foetal death at the beginning of March, 2010. She was
admitted to the Rotunda late on the 3rd March for treatment to deal
with the foetal death. Bimbo died the following day.
At
the time of her death, Bimbo left behind her daughter, Nellie, who had been
born in Limerick Regional Hospital in 2003. Nellie was quadriplegic and Bimbo
was her principal carer. Ten months after her mother’s death, Nellie herself
died from complications relating to her complex condition.
Bimbo’s
partner, Abiola Adesina, who was with Bimbo that day in the Rotunda, and Bimbo’s
family have pressed for an inquest about Bimbo’s death to discover and
understand the unfolding train of events leading up to this tragedy. There has
also been continuing concern and unease in the Nigerian emigrant community in
Dublin about the circumstances of Bimbo’s death.
Maternal
deaths, while a rarity, nonetheless have been shown statistically to affect
non-national emigrant women almost twice as frequently as women born in either
the UK or Ireland (CMACE, 2011; MDE, 2012).
The
Dublin City Coroner has granted the family’s request for an inquest. The first
session was held on the 18th
April. The second session will resume on the 5th July, 2013 at 11
am. sharp.
It
would be wonderful if there were visible support for Bimbo and her family in
the court.
The
Coroner’s Court is in Store Street behind Busaras:
References
CMACE (2011) Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing
maternal deaths to make motherhood safer: 2006-2008 March 2011 The Eighth
Report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom
BCOG 118 Supplement 1 March 2011.
Maternal Death Enquiry Ireland (2012)
Confidential Maternal Death Enquiry in Ireland, Report for Triennium
2009-2011, Cork: MDE.
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