Witnesses speak up on poor maintenance, negligence of the hospital’s elevator.

Days after the tragic death of a Diaso Vwaere at the Odan general hospital, Lagos Island, some health workers have since gone on social media, testifying on the poor state of the elevator, which has been ongoing for over three years.

The medical doctor died on Tuesday, August 1, when the elevator malfunctioned, plunging from the ninth floor to the ground level.

Despite the crash, Vwaere’s body was hanging on the part of the elevator, fighting for her life, while it took the elevator engineers about an hour to arrive at the building and help her out.

According to sources, the hospital lacked the necessary blood for her resuscitation.

Vwaere was said to be on her way to meet a dispatch rider, who had come to deliver her food when the incident happened.

A doctor, Lase Moye, recounting the incident on Twitter, revealed that after the elevator crashed, the bystanders could hear her excruciating screams of pain as her forehead and another part of her body had a cut. Vware, at the moment, was said to be lying between the base of the elevator and the ground floor with the engine hanging over her.

“We called on professional engineers to come and dismantle it because any abrupt movement could let the elevator give. It took almost 40 mins for them to arrive; initially, they sent representatives to dismantle it, and these guys came dressed in suits, suit? Really? When the day is over. Lol! They were at VI; VI is 15 minutes to Marina or less. What took them so long?” Moye explained in a separate post that she lives above Vweare.

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The state of the hospital elevator has been a longstanding issue. It was gathered that health workers and patients have been groaning over its bad condition for over three years.

The elevator had inadvertently stopped working on different occasions, even while carrying people. According to sources, the elevator capacity was reduced from moving eight people to two when it started developing faults.

Another medical Doctor, Olanrewaju Aiyepola, said the incident was due to the negligence of the hospital management, saying that instead of repair of the elevator, the administration always chose to patch it up.

“Particularly aggrieved because we’ve complained for a long time about this elevator. We’ve manoeuvred, managed and prayed each time we had to use it. Empty promises will be made to fix it….till it killed one of us,” Aiyepola wrote.

“We called for repairs; they’d do intermittent patching and ask us to manage it. Low-key, we lived in fear waiting for the next time we’d get stuck in the elevator. An elevator with a maximum capacity of 8 persons could only take one at a time.”

“FACT: The doctor’s quarters at General Hospital Lagos have 10 floors. It has a non-functional elevator and no running water. Doctors on the 10th floor, including pregnant women, climb the stairs daily.”

 Witnesses speak up on poor maintenance, negligence of the hospital’s elevator.

As news of the tragic death broke, some employees and patients have come forward, sharing their experiences of the elevator’s longstanding issues.

They all agreed that the elevator has been in a state of disrepair for several years, and some of them have experienced being trapped inside it in the past. Amidst these testimonies, some also accused the hospital management of negligence, misappropriation of priority and corruption in dealings with the hospital affairs.

While reacting to the incident, the Bearded_Dr_Sina, a doctor who is popular on Twitter, said he and his friend experienced a near-death situation on the same elevator three years ago.

“For context, I also had the same experience on this elevator three years ago. I remember my friend and I panicking when the elevator got stuck. People have been calling for it to get fixed for three years. Now it has killed a Doctor. A Deep probe needs to be done. This can’t slide.”

Another hospital person, who is most likely staff of the hospital, Joy, wrote, “I got stuck in the elevator. We didn’t have a functioning pumping machine. We had to walk over those 10 floors to fetch water. I told us to strike, they sent screenshots of my message to the Oga, and he said I was a nuisance and should go into politics if I wanted to fight.”

Another doctor wrote, ‘It could have been me. “Let Doctors breathe! Dr Vwaere couldn’t breathe.” NMA declares strike, demands justice

The doctors’ body directed doctors working in the three government hospitals on Lagos Island to begin an indefinite strike over the death of its colleague, Vwaere Diaso.

The NMA also proclaimed five days of national mourning in the state and asked medical staff at other government-run institutions to curtail their regular schedules to remember the deceased colleague. According to the association, only emergency medical services will be rendered during that period.

“An inquiry by a team of officials from the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Lagos State Health Service Commission, Lagos State Safety Commission and certified Lift and Vertical Transportation Equipment experts has commenced,” the Lagos state government said.

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