JustAdetoun, a social media critic, has faulted Lagos State Government’s response to the death of Vwaere Diaso, a medical practitioner, at her workplace in a general hospital on Lagos Island on August 1.
In a video that has gone viral on Facebook, this social commentator criticises the many missteps of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, First Lady Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, the commissioner for health, the medical director and the hospital management.
“People have been complaining for 5 good years about this lift. Doctors are fetching water from the ground floor and they have to put water in the lift and go all the way to the ninth or tenth floor. Ibijoke, the first lady, you came there. All you went there to do is to be telling them that you are setting up a new body and investigative panel. What are you investigating? Why are you people so inhuman because of the political positions you hold?” JustAdetoun says in the video.
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“You went there, Ibijoke. You stood right in front of the escalator only and you walked away after addressing the doctors. You could not even go around the facility and you call yourself a mother! Now, these doctors are complaining that there are a lot of rooms that they have electrical fault, so very soon, we might as well hear that doctors have been electrocuted. You, the medical director, you were walking around with the first lady for eye service. You cannot take her to where your problems are. This is very, very inhuman.
“Now, they said that the ceilings are bad. They said that the walls are breaking. They said that they have rodent infestation. These doctors also claim that they’ve not had light for four weeks. When they complain, you people tell them that “you people not even grateful and they give you accommodation”. Really? But you are living in the state house and commissioners are living in houses. Meanwhile, all of you are working for the government.
“So, some people should be emotionally and mentally brutalised because they call themselves medical experts. They don’t deserve amenities? While commissioners deserve amenities? Professor Abayomi, you have been in the know of this atrocity. You have been in the know that students have been complaining. Now, faculty manager, you cannot deny that. We will do everything possible to ensure that all of you are brought to book because you people killed that girl. Now, Mr Charles and Adenike Adekanbi, there are proofs that they have complained to you.
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“If Jide Sanwo-Olu says that they want to set up an enquiry, it’s all a part of their deceit. It is all lies. The medical director is in charge of budget and planning. What money have you allocated for fuel? Which money have you people allocated for maintenance? These doctors said that they have been complaining about the same issues back to back. Sometimes they will come and seal up the lift for two weeks.
“So it was not important to you. You were only concerned about the public attention the case was going to bring. You were not concerned about the girl. Why do we have to lose before we begin to pay attention?
“If you are a lawyer out there and a medical personnel, come out and fight this course. You must answer to justice. These people should not continue to take us as fools because citizens are not fools.”
Following Diaso’s demise on August 1, the Lagos State Government said that it would carry out an investigation.
Diaso’s colleagues at the hospital had complained of negligence of staff members and accused some members of the general hospital’s management of trying to alter the facts leading to the death of their colleague. The state government released a press statement on August 7 to absolve the management of wrongdoing.
This statement claimed that the state government had approved the sack of the facility managers in charge of the failed elevator that killed Diaso. In its investigative panel’s report, the state government said that experienced surgeons, including the medical director of the hospital, oversaw a cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure on Diaso for over 30 minutes till they pronounced her dead at 8.59 pm. She had been in the surgical theatre since they retrieved her from the crashed elevator at 7:50 pm.
“It is important to state that blood samples for cross-matching had not been taken and there had not been a request for blood at the time CPR commenced; it is not true that blood was not available. The State has a strong network of screening centres where blood is available. Besides, there is a register of voluntary donors who can be mobilised at very short notice,” the panel’s statement read in part.
Diaso’s friends and colleagues at the hospital thought otherwise. Many of them claimed that Diaso died a painful death that could have been avoided. They still feel her life could have been salvaged within those 2 hours between the crash at 6:50 pm and her death at 8:59 pm.
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