The story has been told of the beautiful UNILAG graduate who sadly passed only a few weeks before she was to go for her NYSC.
The young woman died few weeks to her NYSC call up
Enoch B. Godson, a young Nigerian man has told of how his
friend, Oluwaseun Ezekiel, died after graduating from the University of
Lagos.
The man took to his Facebook page to call out the management of the
University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo state after Oluwaseun
Ezekiel allegedly died in the hospital due to alleged negligence of
staff and failing infrastructure in the hospital.
Enoch, in his post, revealed that Oluwaseun had just graduated from
the University of Lagos UNILAG and was due for NYSC in a few weeks time
before she died.
He also accused UCH of being a death trap.
Below is how he told the sad story:
"UCH Ibadan A Death Trap.
"I write this from a place of inconsolable grief, sheer
anguish, unimaginable pain, and the very zenith of fury having lost a
dear one so cheaply and unjustifiably in a place that is erroneously
believed to be safe but apparently needs saving itself, riddled with
egomaniacal doctors with God complexes, nurses like witches, patients
attendants who will not attend to you until you have called them a
billion times, morticians who will milk you out of your very life
savings just to get the remains ready for burial without caring that you
were just bereaved, almost everyone there just seemed inappropriate for
their respective jobs - such a shambolic and toxic environment! I lost
hope in Nigeria for a moment.
"We rushed to the emergency department calling for help at
about 12am with our dear Oluwaseun diagnosed with Cardiac failure, but
it took 15 minutes to have a not-so-friendly looking doctor amble to the
car we brought her in just to see whether or not the case was an
emergency. Soon we were asked to pay for so many written things
including an oxygen tube so that she could breathe, but getting to the
cashier, he told us in no uncertain terms that he would not attend to us
until he downs his bowl of amala (biko, who eats amala at such an
ungodly hour? But that's by the way)
"We had to scream for help then a senior nurse came and spoke
some sense into the glutton who reluctantly attended to us after he
heard that the patient was dying. Then again we overheard a nurse say "I
hope these ones are here with much money, otherwise they shouldn't even
bother".
"Eventually, Oluwaseun was checked into the resuscitation unit
and trust me, that place reeked of death. A resuscitation center that
had only one functional heart monitor to serve four dying patients, no
even a single defibrillator, stuffy as hell, very mean nurses; one of
whom even threatened to check out any patient whose relatives were not
cooperative, two malfunctioning air conditioning systems while every
last office there had working ones, it was generally a place prepared to
make patients sweat their very weak pulses out. It should rather be
called a euthanasia ward. How patients were objectified was absolutely
distressing. One would have that euphoric shimmer of hope when a team of
smug doctors strolls in like demigods only to realise that they came to
learn with the patients rather than care for them. What is the point of
acquiring redundant knowledge? These people are more used to deaths
than saving people. Oh Goodness Gracious!!! I thought their Hippocratic
Oath should mean something or are they just murderers with licence? When
you kill someone with your inaction, apathy and negligence are you not
complicit? This grieves my soul and won't stop replaying in my head. I
held her, watched her breathe her last, crashing; with pain written all
over her face. We screamed for help but they were rather concerned with
quietening us than reviving Oluwaseun. They managed to get to her, gave
her a few chest compressions in a futile CPR charade, chatting and
laughing while at it, and then pronounced her dead JUST LIKE THAT.
"We had waited and waited for the cardiologist who neither
showed up nor called for her to be relocated to the cardiology unit
until she gave up at 7:20 pm on the 17th of march 2018. This is a fresh
brilliant UniLag graduate due for NYSC in a few weeks, someone's beloved
daughter, beautiful sister and wonderful friend; someone's decades of
physical, psychological and financial investment left for dead in a
Nigerian foremost health centre.
"Oluwaseun Ezekiel we love you. Even though you were a victim
of inept doctors and failed health policies, you forever will be in our
hearts. I write this hoping to find some closure by laying it all bare,
peradventure it would get to relevant authorities who will amend and
enforce the standard operating procedures of this helluva health
facility, but unfortunately; Oluwaseun you will still be greatly missed.
Rest on in the arms of the Lord.
"Don't wait to experience this before you know about some
doctors playing God. Please share until someone in authority notices and
this menace is fixed #fixuch #fixourhospitals #ripseun"
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