A female passenger on her way to Lagos from Abuja slumped
and died at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Officials at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, on
Thursday stated that the traveller had health challenge before she passed.
However, other passengers at the terminal when the incident
happened on Wednesday knocked FAAN for delaying to send doctors on time to
attend to the passenger before she died.
A social media post from someone who witnessed the incident,
Felix Ashimole, accused FAAN of not sending medical attention when it was
needed most by the passenger.
The post read in part, “For 13 minutes, no FAAN medical
personnel. She died in my hands and few others. A medical doctor on his way to
Kano tried but as he finally said, ‘we lost her.’
“But she would’ve been saved, had FAAN provided basic
insulin. She was diabetic. Her sugar went high; she entered coma; no medical
attention; she saw the light and moved towards it. We kept calling her, Mama
Tobi, Mama Tobi, don’t leave us, wake up, Good morning but saliva trickled
down, foams bubbled and I knew she had seen a better place and wouldn’t be
coming back!
“FAAN and the entire airline staff on ground were stupidly
acting as if è no concern them. They kept announcing boarding and never used
their speaker to ask if there is any medical personnel on ground. Finally they
brought an ambulance from their fire fighting department, to take her corpse
away!”
When contacted, the acting General Manager, Corporate
Affairs, FAAN, Voke Ivbaze, confirmed the development to our correspondent but
argued that the authority intervened as fast as it could.
She said, “FAAN regrets that this kind of thing happened.
But she was a passenger that already had a condition and anything could just
happen to anybody really.
“However, don’t expect that there are doctors around in the
hall at every given time, but when they were called, the doctors came there and
PCR was done on the passenger. But she still passed.
“This could have just happened anywhere but when it happens
at the airport it goes viral as if the management does not care, but that’s not
true, we care for our passengers.”
Voke commiserated with the family of the diseased and stated
that the passenger was moved to the Nigerian Air Force medical facility at the
airport.
“We are really not happy about this and our hearts go out to the family of the diseased and we pray that God should grant them the fortitude to bear the loss,” she stated, adding, that “the diseased passenger was taken to the NAF base hospital.”
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