Late Dazan Mautin Charity
After the protest by Students of Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Lagos, protesting the death of a final year student at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Ebutte-Meta. Late Dazan Mautin Charity, the management therfore suspended all academic activitieson the campus and shut for one month.
According to reports, the students said their colleague’s death was due to negligence on the part of medical staff at the hospital, threatened to raze Yaba Medical Centre and the hospital, calling for the Medical Director’s resignation. Late Dazan Mautin Charity, a Higher National Diploma, HND, student of Office Technology, Bilingual (French), was to conclude her final examination next Monday.
How she died
One of the students, Olamide, who rushed late Charity to the hospital, told Vanguard: “We rushed her to the medical centre by 12noon yesterday (Tuesday). “They told us there was no bed space and we waited for four hours before drugs were given her.” He said although a doctor directed that she be admitted, a nurse sent them away, only for her case to get worse when they got to the hostel.
On returning to the centre at about 10p.m, they were reffered to Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Meta, where they were made to pay N35,000 before treatment could begin. It was while all these were going on that Charity passed on at about 2a.m. yesterday
