Relatives of patients and sanitation workers at the paediatric ward of the Lagos State University Teaching , Ikeja, have lamented lack of access to water.
However, the situation is worse at the paediatric ward as this newspaper was told by an official who does not want to be quoted for fear of sanction, that the connection at the ward has been bad for quite some time. “I have been going from the third floor to fetch water at the morgue building since the blackout. No fan and no ventilation,” she told a PREMIUM TIMES’ reporter on Monday morning.
The five-month-old boy was diagnosed with Macrocephaly, a condition that refers to an overly large head – it is often a symptom of complications or conditions in the brain. Another cleaner, who showed our reporter where they fetch water, which is more than a kilometre to the ward, said the distance isn’t the challenge but the number of stairs they climb with buckets of water on their heads.A woman who identified herself as Mrs Ajayi said she brought her son to see a doctor on Tuesday for the first time, but on getting back on Monday for another appointment, the waiting room had become very stuffy.Patients at the waiting area of the ward.
“In the recent past, the supply from this company has been epileptic,” he said, adding that; “The reason usually given is lack of gas supply to power its turbines.”
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
Lagos University Teaching Hospital is LUTH while Lagos State University Teaching Hospital is LASUTH. If Premium Times wants to be taken seriously, you should not be making this kind of elementary mistakes.