Students Decry Poor Healthcare After Colleague's Death in Ogun University
Ogun University Students Protest Colleague's Death, Demand Better Healthcare. Students march against inadequate medical care after Ifeoluwa Ayodele's death, citing negligence and poor service delivery at the university's health center.
Students at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, have protested Ifeoluwa Ayodele's death, claiming that the inadequate medical care she received at the school's medical center was the reason behind her demise.
Asthma afflicted the deceased student, who was enrolled in Agricultural Economics and Farm Management at the 100 level. On Wednesday, June 19, she was taken urgently to the health center where she passed away in the consultation room.
On Thursday, June 20, a large crowd of irate students rushed the school gate to protest the condition of the university's medical center, even though the precise circumstances surrounding Ayodele's death are still unknown.
A student who spoke on the condition of anonymity stated that because the dead was unable to produce an identity card, the on-duty health officers postponed the patient's treatment.
The student added that advocating for an improved and reorganized campus healthcare system was one of the goals of the protest.
“The staff members' negligence is irritating. They would not attend to you as fast as they should. The boy got there around 1 p.m.; they delayed him until 6:50 pm and he was proclaimed dead around 10 pm. It was because he did not take his ID card along, so they did not attend to him fast. What we are advocating is change.
“This makes it the third similar occurrence in three months as a result of their negligence and poor service delivery,” the student said.
Meshack Nwankwo, the president of the students union at the university, said on Thursday, June 20, that the main reason for the protest was the inadequate care provided at the health center. He said that the information in his statement came from eyewitnesses and the people who hurried the dead to the hospital.
“Most of what we protested against was the poor service of the clinic. We just want a change. Ayodele was unconscious when he was taken to the medical Centre and when they checked his pulse, they discovered that he had died.
“The protest was only for the health centre to be standardized and their services to be improved. I will not say the boy died due to negligence from the medical centre, but according to the person who took him there, the three nurses who were on duty attended to him. They later found out that he was dead,” Nwankwo said.
Speaking to the demonstrators, Olusola Kehinde, the vice chancellor, disclosed that he had come back from the health center with an authenticated version of what had transpired.
He said that even though the staff members tried to revive the deceased after she was brought in dead, their attempts were not effective.
“His friends got to the health Centre and when they saw the patient gasping for breath, they put a spoon in his mouth and poured water on him. When they took his corpse to the FMC, they told them that they should not have poured water on him.
“They brought him to the hospital, there were two nurses, a doctor, and the people there brought him into the doctor's consulting room. I spoke to the matron and doctor this morning, and they said that they checked his pulse and found that there was no pulse; they checked his heartbeat, and there was no beat. The eye was already dilated, and immediately the doctor told the nurse that this was dead on arrival.”
The Vice Chancellor said that because of the shock factor, the doctor told the nurse not to tell the people who brought the corpse. The door to the consultation room was locked after they departed, and efforts to revive the student were not successful.
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