YABATECH students on rampage over colleague’sdeath

Students of Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH,
Lagos, yesterday, went on rampage, protesting the
death of a final year student at the Federal Medical
Centre, FMC, Ebutte-Meta.
They said
their
colleague’s death was due to negligence on the part
of medical staff at the hospital, threatened to raze
Yaba Medical Centre and the hospital, calling for the
Medical Director's resignation.
Late Dazan Mautin Charity, a Higher National
Diploma, HND, student of Office Technology,
Bilingual (French), was to conclude her final
examination next Monday.
How she died
One of the students, Olamide, who rushed late
Charity to the hospital, told Vanguard: “We rushed
her to the medical centre by 12noon yesterday
(Tuesday).
“They told us there was no bed space and we
waited for four hours before drugs were given her.”
He said although a doctor directed that she be
admitted, a nurse sent them away, only for her case
to get worse when they got to the hostel.
On returning to the centre at about 10p.m, they
were reffered to Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-
Meta, where they were made to cough out N35,000
before treatment could begin.
It was while all these were going on that Charity
passed on at about 2a.m yesterday.