LASUTH Denies Alleged Rejection Of Accident Victim Who Is Now Dead

Management of the Lagos State University
Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Thursday, refuted
alleged refusal of the hospital to attend to an
accident victim, late Elizabeth Toby- Lade,
describing the report as unfounded.
Late Elizabeth Toby-Lade was rushed to
LASUTH after she was referred there from a
private hospital where she was taken after a
careless driver who wanted to make a turn
inside her compound, as the gate was open, hit
her and two kids who sustained injuries.

Reacting to the media report which quoted the
husband of the victim’s claim that the nurses
on duty at the Emergency Unit of the hospital
refused to place the patient on oxygen, due to
shortage of oxygen, the Chief Medical Director
of LASUTH, Professor Oke Wale, said the
patient upon arrival with a head injury received
immediate resuscitation measures.

“LASUTH has never been in lack of oxygen for
the use of patients as we generate oxygen in
our plant for medical use and we could not
have been short of oxygen or ask patients in
dire need of it to pay before administration,”
Oke said.