A Nigerian doctor identified as Vware Diaso has been killed in a faulty elevator while working at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos.
According to reports, the incident took place on Wednesday night when the deceased, who resided on the building’s ninth level, wanted to see the dispatch rider who had brought her the meal she had ordered online.
The deceased, an Ilishan Remo, Ogun State resident, and Babcock University alumna, was reportedly less than two weeks into her one-year required internship program at the hospital when tragedy struck. According to a deceased colleague unwilling to be named, the incident took place at about 7:10 p.m. The incident, according to the insider, took place shortly after utilizing the elevator.
In the meantime, the deceased’s colleagues at the facility protested the terrible incident on Wednesday, charging the hospital administration for ignoring prior reports about the broken elevator. According to the witness who talked to PREMIUM TIMES, Ms. Diaso, who resided on the ninth level of the structure, was going to meet a dispatch rider to pick up the meal she had ordered.
“I also used the elevator to the third floor before it went to pick her up. When I used it, it was making some kind of funny noise, I alighted, and a few minutes later, I could hear a sound on top of the elevator. Not long, I heard the sound of the elevator crashing down while she was in it.
“She ordered food, and she wanted to go downstairs to pick it up, but unfortunately, the elevator lost control,” the source said.
The source added that Ms. Diaso was inside the elevator for close to an hour before she was rushed to the hospital’s surgical emergency unit, where she eventually died.
The source said: “The elevator had fallen into the ground, making it difficult to rescue her on time. While we were trying to open the elevator, she was still talking, even as she cried for help.
“She was rushed to the surgical emergency, where they tried to resuscitate her, but after a while, we saw that they were doing Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before she died.”
