2 Sick Nigerian Students Died At The Same Hospital In Ukraine Of Doctor’s Neglect

Two Nigerian University students have died in
Ukraine over what sources called medical
negligence. The two students died one week apart
after their situation got worse at the same hospital
in Ukraine this month.
Here is a detail press release on the two:
The entire Nigerian student community in Donetsk,
Ukraine, has been in state of mourning since last
week due to the sudden death of two of us.
While we mourn our dead, it has however been
painful to watch the Ukrainian media portray a totally
untrue account of what actually happened to the two
Nigerians who died.
Laolu Oresanya Teresa was a third year Electrical
Engineering student of Donetsk National Technical
University. She was admitted to the hospital on
December 8, and was diagnosed by the doctors of
having acute anaemia. Immediately after the
diagnosis, money was paid to the hospital for the
treatment that might be required. Oddly, the doctors
never commenced serious treatment till December
12, saying she was under some medication and they
were monitoring her.
The next day, December 13, the news came that her
situation was critical and she has been moved to the
intensive care unit, where she later passed on at
around 7:p.m. So the issue of not having money as
painted in the Ukrainian media is not true. What is
even more annoying and embarrassing is that the
result of the diagnosis and that of the autopsy were
opposite. Why the autopsy result indicated that she
died of Sepsis, the doctors' diagnosis claimed she
died of acute anaemia.
As for the second deceased, Obede Ogbu, he was a
postgraduate Electrical Engineering student of
Donetsk National Technical University. He died on
December 18; his case was one of total neglect by
the doctors. According to the doctors on duty, he was
suffering from cardiac arrest; rather than give him
the urgent attention needed, they abandoned him.
When we tried to enquire why no attention was given
to him, the doctors responded by saying we should
give them five minute to smoke cigarette.
When the situation became critical and a nurse
rushed to call the doctors, it was too late for Obede
Ogbu. The question many of us have continued to
ask since then is whether the Ukrainian doctors
would have left their own citizens in critical condition
to smoke for five minutes. Would they have treated
fellow European or Russian citizens the same way?
There is no need for the Ukrainian media to twist the
story, because neither our embassy in Kiev nor the
federal government cares if we all perish in the
hospital. The entire Nigerian students in Donetsk
must be commended for having the courage to come
out in large numbers to protest the uncaring attitude
of Ukrainian doctors to Africans. Though we know
nothing would be done to remedy the situation, at
least, the truth deserves to be told.
[By Comrade Ahmed Omeiza Lukman, Donetsk
National Technical University, Ukraine]

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