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Death of SS3 student in Akwa Ibom school sparks controversy.

By Emmanuel Uzodinma


The mysterious death of a Senior Secondary School 3 student in Akwa Ibom State has become an object of controversy.

The deceased, Edima Ini Umoh, DAILY POST reports, was until her death a student of Full Life Academy, Uyo, Akwa Ibom.

It began as a minor complaint for headache but within the next few hours, Edima was no more.

Her death has now sparked allegations against the school authority.

But the school management on its part believes the mother of the deceased has a lot of questions to answer.

According to the Principal, Full Life Academy, Pastor Aniefonteabasi Victor- Williams, everything happened in a flash as no one had the premonition of her death.

She said the deceased student complained of having a headache in the morning of that fateful day and the nurse gave her paracetamol, adding that she felt better and joined her mates for lunch at about 2:30 pm, during which she even demanded for extra food.

The Principal told DAILY POST that, “at about 4:00 pm of same day,, Edima complained of headache again, at that point the school nurse wanted to commence a malaria treatment so that the headache would not result to full blown fever; she brought out a Coartem- an antimalarial drug to administer to her but the deceased refused to take it and said instead they should inform her mother to get Amathem for her.”

She explained that at that point, the school matron called Edima’s mother and handed the phone over to the deceased to speak with her mother.

She further explained that “Edima was telling the mother to pray for her about three times and asked her to come to the school immediately with Amathem and pepper soup; the mother felt that she was over-panicking and asked her to calm down.”

The Principal continued, “The matron told us that shortly after Edima spoke with her mother, she became calm, and asked the hostel parent and hostel prefect who were on ground to allow her to rest and because of the headache, they felt it was proper to let her rest, the hostel parent assigned the school senior prefect who is her classmate to stay with her.

“When we asked the head girl about what happened, she said that Edima was calm and later slept off, so she left her room to also sleep upstairs, not long after she (Edima) started snoring, being that they know her to snore while sleeping, they felt that it was normal.

“After a while, the hostel parent said she returned to check those on Prep, if they were reading and to check on Edima who complained of headache.

“That was when she saw white substance mixed with blood coming out of Edima’s nose, at that point, she said she raised an alarm and there was panic everywhere, by the time they carried her out of the bed, she had already messed herself up.

“She said they cleaned her up and the nurse tried resuscitating her while waiting for the doctor’s arrival. We are affiliated to Premier Clinic. Our Executive Director was called and every other school leader was called and they all ran down to the school immediately, even the owner of Premiere clinic, our ED called him and he came immediately and tried his best.

“I was told that when it was as if nothing was happening, they took the girl to the Premiere clinic where she was placed on oxygen. We prayed, hoping she would respond and come back to life.

“When nothing happened, we reached out to Jeconiah Specialist Hospital; the consultant said we should bring her, it was when we got there that she was confirmed dead by the doctor.

“At that point, we could not do anything else. We and the family were hoping that she would wake up before morning because her body was warm. I was even squeezing her fingers, praying that she would come back to life.

“She was taken home that night, we followed the uncle to the house and we got to our homes at midnight.

“In the morning, I went back to see if she had woken up, and the uncle told me they had taken her to the morgue.

“So after the school session that Friday, I and my team went back for a condolence visit to the mother’s residence, that was when the family informed us that they wanted to carry out an autopsy and that they will carry us along, we accepted.”

Asked if the deceased had an underlying sickness or any known medical condition, the principal said there was nothing of that nature to the best of her knowledge.

“Everything was confusing considering the speed with which the whole thing happened, because we have had cases where parents came to carry their wards at 10pm to hospital and they survived.

“We also have children with serious asthmatic attacks, but they survive.

“We have Nebulizing machines here, we nebulize them before taking them to hospital. This girl was one of our best and we were even preparing her to be our Valedictorian this year until this incident,” she lamented.

However, the family appears not ready to buy into the narrative by the school management.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2023/05/25/death-of-ss3-student-in-akwa-ibom-school-sparks-controversy/%3famp=1

Why are the school authorities believing that the mother has something to answer?

Anyway, if the mother has enough cash let her take her to any federal medical center and conduct a post mortem

Emperormartin:
Why are the school authorities believing that the mother has something to answer?

Anyway, if the mother has enough cash let her take her to any federal medical center and conduct a post mortem

You get?

Is she a drug addict?

Or did she do abortion?

Emperormartin:
Why are the school authorities believing that the mother has something to answer?

Anyway, if the mother has enough cash let her take her to any federal medical center and conduct a post mortem

It seems she dropped her sick. A lot of parents do that so they could go to work.
She mentioned a drug plus peppersoup. It seems something was wrong with her and that was how they use to cure it but she hid it from the school.
Some parents hide things out of fear of being rejected for admission.

Why is it that when tradegy occurs in these church owned schools,thier pastors who claim the spirit in them can move mountains suddenly become quiet?

Pepperdemisback:
It seems she dropped her sick. A lot of parents do that so they could go to work.
She mentioned a drug plus peppersoup. It seems something was wrong with her and that was how they use to cure it but she hid it from the school.
Some parents hide things out of fear of being rejected for admission.

The drug mentioned is an antimalaria drug..
Plus Pepper soup.

Emperormartin:
Why are the school authorities believing that the mother has something to answer?

Anyway, if the mother has enough cash let her take her to any federal medical center and conduct a post mortem

IGNORANCE AND LACK OF SERIOUSNESS TO EVERY SINGLE ISSUE IS THE PROBLEM IN NIGERIA.
HOW CAN A CHILD COMPLAIN OF HEAD ACHE AND YOU OVERLOOK BY GIVING JUST PARA.EVEN THE MOTHER WAS RELAXED.HEAD ACHE IS A VERY SERIOUS SYMPTOM OF MANY ILLNESSES AND DESEASES.YOU DONT JUST GIVE PARA AND ALL SOUGHTS OF DRUGS BASED ON ASSUMPTION WITHOUT PROPER MEDICAL ATTENTION.THIS CAREFREE ATTITUDE IS OUR MAJOR PROBLEM.
IF THE CHILD WAS ABROAD,FIRSTHAND MEDICAL CHECK WOULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON HER AND NOT PHENSIC OR PARA.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY THE SCHOOL WOULD INCLUDE WHAT THEY CALL MEDICAL AS HIGH AS 50K PER CHILD IN THE TUITION FEE AND ALL THEY CAN GIVE IS PARACETAMOL FROM ONE SSCE HOLDER WHO STANDS AS SCHOOL NURSE.
SUCH SCHOOLS SHOULD BE CLOSED AS AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS.
CHILDREN SHOULD BE ON MEDICAL INSURANCE IN BOARDING SCHOOLS SO EVERY ISSUE IS PROPERLY MANAGED WITHOUT ASSUMPTION SINCE THE PARENTS ARE PAYING HEAVILY FOR IT.

Haryoife:
The drug mentioned is an antimalaria drug..
Plus Pepper soup.

That's my point. Something was wrong with her, she wasn't supposed to be in School. If she was as home, this should have been avoided.
Does the drug go with peopersoup?

genkins:
Why is it that when tradegy occurs in these church owned schools,thier pastors who claim the spirit in them can move mountains suddenly become quiet?

Out of point

Nawa o

SHINJACRUSADER:
Out of point

Why not?church people cannot see logic

Pepperdemisback:
That's my point. Something was wrong with her, she wasn't supposed to be in School. If she was as home, this should have been avoided.
Does the drug go with peopersoup?

Nahh not in any way