UNILAG medical staff blamed in
Oluchi’s death
The life of Oluchi
Anekwe, the 21-year old student of University of Lagos who died
after being electrocuted, may have been saved, according to her elder sister Nkem.
26-year old Nkem told Punch that the hospital staff had refused to
attend to Oluchi on time, because they were waiting for identification.
“Oluchi was still alive by the
time she was rushed to the medical centre of the school but the
doctors and nurses refused to attend to her until they saw her identity card
and confirmed that she was a student.”
“They refused to attend to her
and that was how the girl died there. The most shocking part was that when I
got there, Oluchi wasn’t even placed on a bed; they had wrapped her body and
placed it on the floor. I told the doctor that it was wrong for them to have
done that because sometimes the person could still be alive at that point.”
“It was an indirect statement
from them that nothing was done to save her life. Even Uju, our last born who
was with Oluchi when the incident happened, wasn’t attended to even with the
injuries she sustained. It was after I confronted the doctor for not being
sensitive enough that Uju was only given panadol and one small tablet.”
“This was around 8:00pm. You can
imagine how long she was abandoned from the time the cable fell on them.”
“At the mortuary at LUTH that
night, the officials refused to honour the death certificate issued
for Oluchi, insisting that it was not valid because the doctor did not sign
it.”
“He probably didn’t sign it
because he knew he didn’t examine her at all before pronouncing her dead.
The ambulance that brought us from UNILAG had to take the nurse back to get the
doctor to sign the death certificate while the body was wheeled to a corner
outside the mortuary. It was until about 11:30pm that her body was finally
taken into the morgue.”
“Oluchi was brought to the
medical centre alive but she died because they refused to treat her. It’s a
shame that an ordinary school ID card would be more valuable than the life of a
human, a promising young lady,” she said.
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