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The students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, have protested the death of their colleague, Ifeoluwa Ayodele, a 100-level student of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, who suffered from asthma.
They also lamented the state of the health-care system in the institution, which they alleged triggered the student's death.
It was learnt that the deceased who was suffering from asthma was rushed to the school clinic for immediate attention but died while in the consulting room.
While investigation is ongoing, the angry students stormed the campus gate to protest over the state of the university medical facilities.
A student who spoke on condition of anonymity said the decreased's treatment was delayed following the inability to provide his identity card
The student said, "The students of FUNAAB staged the protest to advocate a better and restructured health-care system on the campus.
“The staff members’ negligence is irritating. They would not attend to you as fast as they should. The boy got there around 1 p.m.; they delayed him until 6:50 pm and he was proclaimed dead around 10 pm. It was because he did not take his ID card along, so they did not attend to him fast. What we are advocating for is change.
“This makes it the third similar occurrence in three months as a result of their negligence and poor service delivery."
Confirming the incident, the University Students' Union President, Meshack Nwankwo, on Thursday, said the protest was primarily about the poor service of the institution's health centre.
He said, “Most of what we protested against was the poor service at the clinic. We just want a change. Ayodele was unconscious when he was taken to the medical centre and when they checked his pulse, they discovered that he had died.
“The protest was only for the health centre to be standardised and their services to be improved. I will not say the boy died due to negligence from the medical centre, but according to the person who took him there, the three nurses who were on duty attended to him. They later found out that he was dead."
The Vice Chancellor, Olusola Kehinde, said the doctor told the nurses not to inform those who brought him because of shock, so they were told to get a card noting that after they left, they locked the consulting room door and tried to resuscitate the boy, but it was to no avail.
