Woman loses son and home to rabies.

A woman is in a big dilemma after her marriage crashed because of the death of her son due to bite from rabid dog. Patience Odukomaiya she lost her son who was bitten by a dog that had rabies, and then she was sent packing from her matrimonial home. 

 She narrated how she lost her five-year-old boy, Jomiloju, to untimely death from a dog bite. “I have lost everything. Why me, why has this happened to me?” she lamented. Looking lost and confused, Patience recalled that on August 8, 2016, the young boy had asked her for money to buy biscuits. When he asked for money to buy biscuit, initially I did not give it a thought, but when he said that if it were to be his father he asked, he would have given him the money, I was compelled to give him N20,” she recalled. She said his brother offered to accompany him to buy the biscuit in the next building inside the estate but Jomiloju declined. As it was not his first time of going to buy it himself, she let him go alone. 

 Patience said that their house is just outside Rufus Olaniyan Estate where they normally buy things. He had already purchased the biscuits and was on his way back home when he was attacked by dogs belonging to one Mr. Rufus Olaniyan. Jomiloju's clothes were torn as he was bitten by one of the dogs good Samaritans followed him home and told the mum that the dog of Mr. Rufus Olaniyan had bitten him. 

 The boy was crying and the spot of the bite was gushing blood,the mother took him to New Life Hospital in Ajegunle area of Ikorodu where the wound was cleaned and he was given an injection. They told us that the treatment will last for three days and which the mother complied. Patience said that after the treatment the boy was okay and she though it was all over. But three weeks later, the boy began to feel feverish and was running high temperature.Until this time, she said had actually forgotten about the dog bite incident and her belief was that the boy had developed malaria. She bought an antimalarial drug for him, but when he was not responding , took him to 

Randle General Hospital in Surulere where it was confirmed that has  rabies as a result of dog bite. They were referred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idi-Araba, where he was treated before he died. 

 The husband though from Ogun state but works in Ibadan,usually check in to Lagos on weekends to be with his family.When the incidence occurred, the wife was always updating the husband but matters took a nose-dive at the death of the son. 

 When Jomiloju died on 18/9/16 Patience was really downcast, the news also did not go down well with her husband who heaped blame on her. He was quite upset and told her to pack her belongings and leave his house.The husband and his relatives came to Lagos, took away her first son and left the little girl she is nursing. More