Demand for Justice for Late Hon. Maria Atere Who Died From Medical Personnel' Neglect
- by: Abimbola Isreal
- recipient: The Management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria
A year 4 student of the university lost her life due to an accident while heading to school. According to the chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Dotun Opeleye said the girl would have been saved if the medical personnel had released the ambulance to convey the injured student to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.
Opaleye added that the late Atere had a fracture on her skull and was immediately rushed to a nearby private hospital while some students went to the school to request for ambulance to convey her to FMC.
He alleged that the request was turned down.
He added, “The President of Students Union Government of the institution, Segun Dennis, went to the health centre, located in the school premises, to request for the ambulance but, he was denied. They told him to bring the girl to the school clinic.
“The lady was bleeding seriously and for two hours, the medical personnel did not release the ambulance and later we got a referral, and we had to take her to the FMC with the union bus.
“On getting to the hospital, the doctor told us that she had died and we became devastated."
The request from the Student Union Government to the university Management:
1. 50 million Naira compensation
2. Relief of the staff
3. Upgrade of the University’s Health Center Facilities.
JUSTICE PREVAILED
Greatest Funaabites ,On the 26th of October 2015,we staged a protest,closing down the University gate for 6hours,demonstrating our displeasure to the act of negligence of the Health centre which led to the death of one of us Late Hon Atere Maria
On that Fateful day,the Vice Chancellor constituted a committee to look into our demands and the committee was chaired by the Dvc Academics,chairman of all staff union on campus were members,dean of student affairs,President of student Union,Finance Director,Welfare Director and general sec
We took our stands,we dialogued,we fought,we made sure maria did not die in vain and we protected your interest as we have always done
Today,we are pleased to inform you that our protest was never in vain,our sweats didn't go like that
The report sent to the Vice chancellor which will be implemented with immediate effect
1 The ambulance driver on duty that night should be dismissed from the health centre
2. The University management should embark on construction of standard X-ray house in the health centre with immediate effect and should stop the act of risking the lives of our students sending them out for X ray examination
3 Commencement of Electronic Records keeping in the health centre to ease record retrieval and also to aid quick response to students even without I.D cards
4 Successfully agitated for Increase in Health centre funding by 50%
5 Training and retraining of staff of Health service
6 Three community health and extension workers should be trained as paramedics to always accompany the Ambulance to an emergency
7 Three medical doctors who left the health centre some years back should be replaced with immediate effect
8 Special consideration should be given to drug purchase.thus,procurement process should be fast tracked or alternatively,a certain amount of money should be reserved for the Health services for drug replenishment
9 University management should consider the establishment of a Maternity wing at the health services with necessary equipment and personnel as stipulated by NUC
10 The ambulances should be well equipped with more resuscitation materials
11 Workers in the health centre should make use of Tag so as to identify the bad eggs
12 That the University management should commence on recruitment of qualified staff for the Record and Lab tech units
This was sent to students of the university by the vice president of the student union president
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