Lagos Probes Doctor’s Death In Hospital Elevator, Colleagues Shun Work

The Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos State chapter, has protested the death of a medical officer undergoing horsemanship, Dr. Vwaere Diaso, who reportedly died after an elevator she was in crashed at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island .

The Lagos State Government, said it had set up a panel of inquiry to look into the circumstances surrounding the incident and promised to sanction anyone found culpable.

thecolumn.ng gathered that Diaso was in the elevator on her way to get her food from a dispatch rider when the incident happened.

She was rushed to the emergency ward of the hospital where she was confirmed dead

Report gathered that Diaso was in the elevator on her way to get her food from a dispatch rider when the incident happened.

She was rushed to the emergency ward of the hospital where she was confirmed dead.Following this, a protest rocked the hospital as her colleagues besieged the premises and grounded activities there.

The protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as, “I don’t want to die,” “Doctors’ lives matter,” “Justice for Vwaere,” “The system failed you, Diaso,” and “Here is Vwaere Diaso, she didn’t have to die for us to get it right.”

Diaso’s protesting colleagues shut the hospital’s main gate, the health service commission’s gate, and the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital’s gate.