A medical doctor who survived the auto crash that killed 6 Ekiti state doctors along the Kaduna Expressway on Sunday April 24th, has narrated how lack of fuel and medicine resulted in the death of the doctors.
The survivor, Dr. Stephen Ayosanmi

We reported it here yesterday Ekiti State Governor, Governor Ayodele Fayose, declared a 3 days of mourning in the state after six medical doctors and one driver in the state all died in a car accident involving a 13-passenger bus a few kilometres to Kaduna on their way to Sokoto to attend a Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) event on Sunday, 24th April.

A survivor from Sunday’s accident has exclusively disclosed to Vanguard on his sick bed in Kaduna how the accident occurred. He said the doctors would not have died had basic medical care been administered on them after the accident, adding that the incident occurred around where the late Minister of state for Labour and Productivity, James Ocholi and his family perished in an accident on March 6, 2006.


At least four of the medical doctors, who survived the accident, were at present receiving medical attention at the St. Gerard Catholic Medical Hospital, Kakuri. One of the survivors, Dr. Stephen Ayosanmi of EKSUTH, spoke on his hospital bed on the accident.

On how it happened, Ayosanmi said: "I am one of the delegates for the National NMA Conference taking place in Sokoto. On our way, we decided to follow through Kaduna and stop so that we would continue our journey to the conference the following day. We were about 60km to Kaduna when the accident happened. We were in a bus that seats between 15 and 16 person. But we were 13 in the bus, including the driver. Aside the driver, we were all doctors. This was on Sunday, April 24. As we were approaching Kaduna, suddenly a tire burst. The bus somersaulted. This was around 4:45pm.

The scene of the car crash

"When the accident happened, some of us came out and people came and tried to help in the rescue effort. I came and I found out that I did not have any fracture or serious injury. By the time the members of the Road Safety Corps came, some doctors that were severely injured had died. Five of them! But, we have two who could still survive. So we rushed them to the nearby hospital (Doka General Hospital, about 70 km to Kaduna).

"At the hospital, I was surprised when they said that there was no doctor there. I was even telling the nurses, ‘ok give me a pain reliever and let me put you through on how to resuscitate that man that was lying near me. But none of them attended to us. They were just running around, saying there was no this, no that. They were running around looking for this and that. Then I pleaded with the Road Safety to take us to the nearest hospital away from the one we were. I said they should take us to Suleja, Kaduna, wherever, but the Road Safety said that they didn’t even have fuel.

"I told them that it was ok, that I would pay for fuel. So we left the place in search for fuel and bought the fuel on the road. But, before we got to the hospital (St. Gerard, Kaduna) the other person had died. That made the number of deaths six. The other very injured person, who was in the other bus also died, making the casualty seven," he said.


http://www.levitoday.com/2016/04/how-lack-of-fuel-and-medicine-killed-6.html

so sad that life is such a cheap commodity in this country. no light, no fuel, no drugs, no food, no money, no love.

May God have mercies on thier souls.