YABATECH Students On Rampage Over Colleague’s Death

 

Students of Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Lagos,

yesterday, went on rampage, protesting the death of a final

year student at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Ebutte-

Meta.

They said their colleague’s death was due to negligence on

the part of medical staff at the hospital, threatened to raze

Yaba Medical Centre and the hospital, calling for the

Medical Director’s resignation. Late Dazan Mautin Charity,

a Higher National Diploma, HND, student of Office

Technology, Bilingual (French), was to conclude her final

examination next Monday.

How she died;

One of the students, Olamide, who rushed late Charity to

the hospital, told Vanguard: “We rushed her to the medical

centre by 12noon yesterday (Tuesday). “They told us there

was no bed space and we waited for four hours before

drugs were given her.”

He said although a doctor directed that she be admitted, a

nurse sent them away, only for her case to get worse when

they got to the hostel.

On returning to the centre at about 10p.m, they were

reffered to Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Meta, where

they were made to cough out N35,000 before treatment

could begin.

It was while all these were going on that Charity passed on

at about 2a.m. yesterday