Poisonous gas: Student recounts ordeal
FIVE out of the 12 students of Ogba Junior Grammer School Lagos who slumped after inhaling poisonous gas were yesterday discharged from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and taken home by their parents, while one is still in the intensive care unit. Those discharged are Idowu Modupe (13; Tijani Mariam (12; Muiz Radiat (11; Adebiyi Taiwo (14 and Aladokun Subaydah (13, while 18-year-old Lateef Nojeem remains at the intensive care unit of the hospital. At the Surgical Emergency intensive unit where Najeem is receiving treatment, she said that she was also a victim of the previous incident. She said the incident happened shortly after the students were returning to their classrooms after the lunch break. “After the normal break, as we were moving back into the class, we started inhaling an odour. We were instructed by the teacher to go out of the class because of the odour. The next place I found myself was in the hospital. I am getting better now.” The Chief Medical Director, Professor David Adewale Oke, a consultant Cardiologist of LASUTH, said at he received a call from the Commissioner of Health at about 3pm on Thursday that there was an explosion in Ogba and that his men should be at alert.
Created at 2014-03-08 03:31:10
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