Students of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, are currently
protesting the death of a fellow student identified as Kel who
reportedly died due to negligence in the school's clinic yesterday. The
angry students have chased away all the doctors and nurses at the
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital and locked up the hospital
gate, barring movement in and out of the health facility.
According to reports, the final year Theatre Art student collapsed on
Sunday whilst having her bath and was rushed to the Emergency unit of
the University Of Port harcourt teaching Hospital....The angry students
protesting says that KEL was left unattended to from 6am until 12noon
when she gave up .......They allegedly refused to attend to her because
they say there was no bed space!
The students said the level of neglect of the students of the hospital
was much as over 20 of its students have died in UPTH as a result of
negligence.The most recent of the death is that of the final year
student who died, in UPTH after doctors and nurses in the hospital
allegedly refused to attended to her.
The aggrieved students complained that their students die on daily
bases due to carelessness on the side of the doctors and nurses serving
in the school owned hospital, UPTH.
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