Protest erupts as FUTA final-year student sl¥mps and di£s in his hostel

A 500-level student of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Ayomide Akeredolu, has di£d after he sl¥mped in his hostel on Thursday, August 24, 2023.

The deceased, a student of Quantity Survey Department, sl¥mped and was reportedly rushed to the school’s health centre where he was confirmed d£ad.

His colleagues, who staged a protest at the Akure-Ilesa expressway on Friday, August 25, alleged that he di£d due to negligence at the school’s medical center.

A student, who claimed to be one of those who rushed the deceased to the hospital, stated that: “We rushed the guy to the health center around 8:30 pm, when we got there, there was power outage, and throughout the oxygen set up, CPR and inj£ctions they gave him, the light wasn’t restored, we had to use our flashlights, hard to believe that there’s no backup power supply in the hospital.”

Confirming the incident in a statement on Saturday, the school’s Director, Corporate Commission, Adegbenro Adebanjo, said: “According to the doctor on duty, the student was rushed to the Health Centre at about 8:50 pm on Thursday 24th August, 2023.

He was brought in d£ad. Efforts to resuscitate him through Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and oxygen therapy proved abortive. He was subsequently taken to the UNIMED Teaching Hospital, Akure by the medical personnel on duty inside the University ambulance.”