Diaso’s death: Medical Guild’s 2020 tweet on elevator danger surfaces online
An old tweet of an association of all Lagos State government-employed medical and dental practitioners, Medical Guild, warning about the danger of the Lagos elevator that trapped a medical doctor, Dr Vwaere Diaso, on Wednesday, surfaced online.
A netizen, Sports Doctor, called the state government out for negligence adding that the medical body had on January 12, 2020, informed the relevant authorities of the hospital to look into the dysfunctional elevator in the 10-storey building of the General Hospital, Odan on Lagos Island.
Almost 3 years ago on the 12th of January 2020, the Twitter handle @MedicalGuild complained about the poor state of the elevator in the 10-storey General Hospital building in Lagos, and as usual, nothing was done about it.
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— SportsDokita (Odogwu ) (@Sports_Doctor2) August 2, 2023
“Almost 3 years ago on January 12, 2020, the Twitter handle @MedicalGuild complained about the poor state of the elevator in the 10-storey General Hospital building in Lagos, and as usual, nothing was done about it.
“A General Hospital in a ‘Mega City’ like Lagos has a non-functional elevator and it was left like that and now it has taken a life, a life of a young doctor,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, a finding by our correspondent revealed that the Medical Guild notified the Commissioner of Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, the wife of the Lagos State governor, Joke Sanwo-Olu, and the Nigeria Medical Association of Nigeria about the non-functional elevator and lack of water in the hospital facilities causing the doctors who live on the topmost floor including pregnant women to climb stairs multiple times daily.
The doctor-body queried, “Are we going to wait till someone dies before things are done properly?@drobafemihamzat.”
The PUNCH reports that the late Diaso crashed from the 10th floor of the hospital building to the ground floor on Tuesday.
It was also gathered that the late doctor was rushed to the emergency ward of the hospital for treatment but eventually died.
A colleague of Diaso, who craved anonymity, told our correspondent that the elevator had malfunctioned several times before now without anybody doing anything to fix it. Punch
