Our reporter/ Nigerian female doctor identified as Dr. Vwaere Diaso has died while using an elevator that reportedly crashed from the 10th floor of Lagos Island General Hospital, Odan.
Calling out the management of the Lagos Island General Hospital, Odan, witnesses alleged negligence and a possible case of embezzlement of funds meant for the repair of the faulty elevator before the death of the doctor who fell to her death on the hospital premises.
It was gathered that she was set to complete her houseman ship in just two weeks at General Hospital, Odan, Lagos.
The accident occurred while on her way to collect her meal from a dispatch rider when the elevator fell from 10th floor to the ground.
A Twitter user, identified only as Big Amara, in her tweet disclosed that the deceased, Diaso, a Babcock University graduate, had just two weeks to complete her housemanship.
According to a Twitter user @lx_amara, the elevator fell from the 10th floor of the building on Tuesday while Vwaere was inside it.
“A doctor who had just 2 weeks to complete her housemanship just died in general hospital (Odan, Lagos island) due to poor management and negligence. The elevator she was in, fell from 10th floor to the ground! Video was so painful to watch,” a post on Twitter reads.
It was said to have taken about one hour for the victim to be evacuated from the crashed elevator, after which she was rushed to the emergency room where she died.
A staff who also tweeted about the incident said the elevator was known to have had issues, and staff had made complaints about it.
“Particularly aggrieved because we’ve complained for a long time about this elevator. We’ve maneuvered, managed and prayed each time we had to use it. Empty promises will be made to fix it….till it killed one of us,” she wrote.
Since news of the incident became public, some Nigerians have taken to social media to share their experiences about the hospital, particularly the elevator.
In 2020, the medical guild tweeted about the elevator at the hospital, calling the attention of the Lagos state government to it.
“The doctors quarters at General hospital Lagos has 10 floors. It has a non-functional elevator and no running water,” the tweet reads.
“Doctors who live on the 10th floor including pregnant women climb the stairs multiple times daily.
“Are we going to wait till someone dies before things are done properly?”
Leave a Reply