A Canadian-based medical doctor, Amos Akinbiyi, has taken the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) to court for breach of contract, intimidation, conspiracy, and defamation.
The resort to litigation reportedly began in 2017 when he was forced to save his daughter’s life as she gave birth.
Dr Akinbiyi said that other doctors and professionals were on “staff and available,” but that he was called instead to deliver his dying daughter’s baby.
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Reports said that Dr Akinbiyi, an ob-gyn in Regina who has trained dozens of doctors, had to perform an emergency surgery on his daughter.
He said that because he was upset about the hospital decision, he was told to go home, but Akinibiyi refused to go home.
“How would I go home? My daughter is caught in a code blue, I mean that is between life and death,” Akinbiyi was quoted to have said in a report by cbcsasknews.
Akinbiyi was further quoted to have said that it was ethically inappropriate; and, that as a Nigerian, it was culturally a taboo.
He said: “The treatment that I have had with Saskatoon Health Authority only made me realise that I don’t belong.”
He thereafter filed a complaint against SHA officials. The SHA, in riposte, filed their complaints against him.
Akinbiyi alleged racism. He said that was the reason he had proceeded against SHA in court.
Akinbiyi said “This is not the first time SHA would be doing this to some ethnic doctors; and I feel I am committed to pursuing this to a conclusive end, despite all the financial involvement, despite all the exhaustion because this is a task for generations to come, not just only for me.”
The SHA, according to the report, declined to comment, citing the ongoing case.
Akinbiyi’s allegations have yet to be proved in court, but all of this comes as the province is reviewing the workplace culture of doctors at Regina Hospitals after other complaints of racism.
Eleven doctors at the regina Hospital filed a human rights complaint in 2023, alleging racism and preferential treatment of white doctors.
