Nigerian undergraduate dies at college’s medical centre; VC urges probe

Florence Obi, the vice chancellor of the College of Calabar, has directed the Medical Board of the establishment to urgently conduct an intensive investigation into the circumstances resulting in the dying of a pupil.

The deceased, Treasured Agini, is a Third-year pupil of the Division of Library and Data Science. She died on 28 January on the establishment’s Medical Centre.

The order for investigation is contained in a launch signed on Sunday in Calabar by the Registrar of the College of Calabar, Gabriel Egbe.

Mr Egbe stated that the vice-chancellor, in addition to your complete establishment, valued the lives of her college students and is devastated by the painful loss reported on the medical centre of the establishment.

“The Medical Board is to research the circumstances surrounding the deceased’s admission on the College Medical Centre.

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“The Medical Board can be to find out if the dying may have been prevented, and study the roles performed by the person employees of the Medical Centre in managing the affected person.

“The Board can be anticipated to determine the veracity or in any other case of allegations of carelessness or negligence of responsibility among the many employees of the hospital in dealing with the affected person and advise administration on how one can keep away from a reoccurrence of comparable conditions sooner or later.

“The report of the board is predicted to succeed in the Vice-Chancellor on or earlier than Feb. 2.”

(NAN)