UNIBEN students stage a protest over a colleague who d!ed allegedly due to medical negligence

Williams Edo-Osaigie, a University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH)-Institute of Health Technology (ITH) department student, has passed on.

It was gathered that on Wednesday at about 5am, he went to read at UNIBEN’s basement not too far from the hospital and caught a cold.

“He developed a seizure and was rushed to Acc!dent and Emergency ward of UBTH by his friends but the nurses on duty refused to admit him requesting for NHIS card. They thought he was overreacting and they left him for over an hour on the floor in-front of the building.

Even the doctor on duty refused to attend to him saying he was tired and plugged his ears listening to music. Williams bare on the floor, struggled for oxygen and d!ed. The nurses were confronted and they lied that he was brought-in-de#d (BID).

Even when we took him to the morgue, the attendants refused to embalm him and were asking for N5K until we protested. It is pathetic that Williams—the only child of his mother—who had plans of traveling to Canada was c#t short due to medical negligence. We staged a protest in the school on the matter because this is a recurrent issue on campus.