President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has narrated how his family became victim of negligence in a public hospital when he lost his grandchild due to medical neglect in a government hospital.

He disclosed this on Friday during the ministerial screening on the floor of the Senate.

An emotional Akpabio while a ministerial nominee, Tunji Alausa, was being screened narrated his family’s ordeal and the after effect of pain from that traumatic experience.

He said: “Every other person has been a victim of medical neglect.

“My first grandchild in 2019 in a federal medical centre died through bleeding. He was receiving drip and it was in the night — there was no help,” the former governor added.

“He was looking for water to drink. He rolled on the floor outside and entered the early morning dew. No doctor, no nurse. He bled until he lost 60 percent of his blood and almost going mental, he struggled and fell on the floor.

“By that time, he had gone into a coma. I struggled. They went and brought a defibrillator to attempt to revive the heart, but it did not work.

“I used my hand and struggled with my personal physician, I could not revive him. I had to close his eyes and put him in the mortuary,”  an obviously emotional Akpabio said.