Patient Dies In UITH After Striking Workers Switch Off Ventilator

Date: 2020-08-26

A patient at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital in Kwara State has died following an industrial action embarked upon by health workers amidst the coronavirus disease.

Channels Television learned from a family source that the patient, Olusola Olagunju, had been on life support before the incident occurred.

The victim was said to have died after the aggrieved workers switched off the oxygen.

A friend of the deceased, Ezekiel Adewole, said the unfortunate incident occurred on Tuesday.

Adewole explained that the patient died before being evacuated to another hospital for medical attention.

The wards of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Kwara State.

"He was referred to UITH, Ilorin for treatment. He has been undergoing this treatment for a while. He had difficulty in breathing, that is the only issue he had.

"He was okay, very active online. He was always on online – WhatsApp, Twitter and all others. The only thing is that he could not talk frequently on phone.

"He was using the support of oxygen. On Tuesday, we heard that the UITH went on strike. On that fateful day, they switched off their light.

"This guy was living on oxygen, electric oxygen. Immediately they switched off their light, he could not use the oxygen any longer and that was how his system collapsed.

The compound of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Teaching Hospital where a patient on life support died over the strike embarked by health workers.

"In the process of taking him to another hospital, he gave up. His family also sought the assistance of an ambulance, but they were denied because the drivers were also on strike," he said.

But reacting, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) at the medical facility registered its displeasure over the situation that cost the patient's life.

NARD Chairman, Lanre Oloshunde, however insisted that as medical practitioners, patients owe them the respect as they perform their duties.

"We have suspended the strike. The strike was informed from a security situation that happened at the hospital in which one of our doctors was assaulted on duty.

"Since then, the management of the hospital has been able to respond with some security measures. At least to some extent, that has guaranteed the safety of our members being able to work.

" We heard that our security was not guaranteed then, that is why we had to go on strike. Thankfully, there has been some security improvements so far in this regard," he said.

While praying that the situation does not repeat itself again, Oloshunde advised members of the public against attacking health workers.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara State University Of Education     Amada Jidda     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     PharmAccess Foundation     Galadima     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Emmanuel Bello     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Mustapha Olanipekun     Najim Yaasin     Kwara State Polytechnic     Adanla-Irese     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Aliyu Sabi     Old Oyo     Yusuf Arowosaye     S.O. Opowoye     Abdulkarim Adisa     Oniye     Local Government Pension Board     Bolaji Nagode     NURTW     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Sherif Shagaya     Wahab Isa     Revenue Court     Idowu Aremu     FOMWAN     Tunji Olawuyi     Sheikh Ariyibi     Admiralty Villa     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Chief Of Staff     Imam Gambari     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Ahmed Alhasssan     CACOVID Palliatives     Erubu     Lola Ashiru     Taofeek Ibraheem     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Ifelodun     Babaloja-General     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Madawaki     Ogidi-Oloje     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Rasaq Jimoh     Kwara Basketball Association     Kannike     Oya State     BECE     IYA ALFA NLA     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Idiagbon     Ashiru     Fatimoh Lawal     Michael Ologundea     Ben Duntoye     Share     Solomon Edojah     Kolawole Bashirat     Baba Idris     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Jimoh Olusola Imam     IQRA College     Tafida Of Ilorin     National Pilot     Ayedun     Maja     Makama Of Ilorin     Muhammed Aliyu     Abdulwahab Ololele     Abdullahi Samari    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Abubakar Abdulraheem     TESCOM     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     KSIRS     Obuh     JAAC     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     College Of Health     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Bolaji Aladie     Kehinde Boyede     Folashade Omoniyi     Ibrahim Mashood     Manzuma     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Maryam Ado Bayero     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     TVC Female National Debate     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Lanre Jimoh     Ahman Patigi     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Tsado Manman     Yekeen Alabi     Ilorin East     Oba Of Jebba     Congress For National Consensus     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Binta Abubakar Mora     Sabitiyu Grillo     Abdulhakeem Amao     Tafida     AbdulHamid Adi     Femi Agbaje     CACOVID     Buhari     Shuaib Jawondo     Rachael Obisesan     MalHub     Alaro     Ganiyu Abolarin     Ilofa     Kola Adesina     Mohammed Abduraheem     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Bayo Onimago     Edret Sabi Abel     Iliasu     Oro Grammar School     Kwara State Sports Commission     Kwara North     Yusuf Aiyedun     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Kazeem Gbolagade     Rasheed Jimoh     Sabo-Oke     Noah Yusuf     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Bukola Saraki     Danladi     Tunde Idiagbon Road     SSA Youth     Oko-Erin     Presidential Election