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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Students’ Engagements, Sunday Asefon, has solicited medicare support for the students who were injured during the school collapse in Jos, Plateau State capital.
He said this when he paid a solidarity visit to the students in the hospital.
Asefon bemoaned the students that lost their lives during the ugly incident, describing their sudden departure as saddening and mournful.
No fewer than 22 deaths and 132 injured were recorded during a recent sudden building collapse at a primary and secondary school academy at Busa-Buji community, Jos North Local Government Area of the state.
Asefon in a statement released on Tuesday, said he visited the survivors where they were receiving treatments, like the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, Bingham University Teaching Hospital, and Our Lady of Apostles Hospital.
Asefon, who engaged the Chief Medical Directors of the hospitals, appealed to the staff of the medical facilities to put up their best professional skills and rescue those who sustained severe injuries in order not to increase the death tally.
He said, “On Monday, I visited Saint Academy Jos, the scene of the Jos school building collapse that left many students dead and several persons injured
“I also visited the hospitals where the survivors were receiving treatments among which are, Plateau Specialist Hospital Jos, Bingham University Teaching Hospital, and Our Lady of Apostles Hospital.
“The kernel of my visit was to ascertain the progress made and solicit for good medical attention for them so that the deaths won’t increase further.
“I met all the Chief Medical Directors of the hospitals to discuss the progress of the treatments, as well as the Plateau State commissioner for secondary education.
“It’s my prayer that God grant the departed souls eternal rest and quick recovery for all those hospitalised.”
