Corpse Left At General Hospital Until It Began To Stink In Lagos State

Foul odour emanating from a decomposing corpse
at the Accident and Emergency Clinic, Orile-Agege
General Hospital, Lagos, on Monday, prevented
medical workers from attending to patients at the
clinic and wards attached to it.
Patients were treated outside a large shed where
new patients queued to collect cards before they
were eventually taken to different wards for further
attention.
When Punch visited the hospital on Monday
morning, the doors of the clinic, which is located
close to the Pharmacy Unit, had been locked and a
male ward attendant in purple uniform was seen
mopping the lobby with disinfectant.
The nurses evicted from their station were also
seen shouting at people not to open the door.
A patient who was relocated to the Surgery Ward
said it took hospital officials more than two hours
to evacuate the corpse.
"I came in here around 5am and there was no
power supply at the time. The generator was also
not working at the time, but there was no odour.
I was already on a drip inside the ward when this
foul odour hit the ward.
In a matter of minutes, we were all asked to leave
the ward. My drip was detached and condemned by
the nurses.
"We were all taken outside and we sat on the
benches by the Pharmacy Unit. It took them more
than two hours to decide what to do with the
corpse.
I was later dispatched to the Surgery Ward, while
others were taken to the Casualty Ward," he said.
When contacted, the Medical Director, Dr. Afusat
Tijani, refused to talk to Punch. "I am not allowed to
talk to the press," she simply said.
However, a source who did not want to be quoted
because of civil service rule said the corpse was 'a
coroner's case.' The source denied that the corpse
had been left unattended for three days.
"What happened was that the State Environmental
Health Monitoring Unit was supposed to have
evacuated the corpse, but they said they did not
have fuel to get here.
The corpse was a coroner case and there was
nothing we could have done. SEHMU only came to
pick the corpse this morning.





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