QUEENS COLLEGE: Fear grips parents as more students fall ill

ByBy Elizabeth Uwandu

lagos—The last has not been heard about the Queens College health saga as a more students of the school are being hospitalised even as parents have renewed calls for investigations into circumstances surrounding the deaths of two students, Vivian Osainiyi and Bithia Itulua.

Vanguard gathered that two of the sick students are currently on admission at the Child Emergency Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, and another is under observation at the University of Lagos Medical Centre.

The first girl, an SS1 student named Joy, was in a critical condition when she was rushed to the Emergency Unit of the hospital by her parents Friday last week.
Her mother, who spoke to Vanguard, said she (Joy) was incoherent even after she was admitted.
“She was running temperature, vomiting and stooling. We had to rush her to LUTH. You can see my daughter, at a point here in the hospital, she was saying things that were not discernible. That scared me and I started calling on God for healing.”
Corroborating his wife’s claims, Joy’s father confirmed she was under close observation but responding to treatment.
“Due to my state of mind, I can’t say much. But it is a fact that my daughter had infection and diarrhoea,” he stated.
The second girl on admission, Muninat, a JSS 3 student was said to be responding to treatment, according to her father.
“Well, I can’t say much. But God bless the new principal who has been going from one hospital to the other to visit the students. For now, my daughter is in critical condition, but she is still breathing. Although, I can’t tell you what is wrong with her now as we are still running tests on her. The symptoms that made us rush her here were stooling and vomiting with severe headache and high body temperature,” the dad said.
One Mr. Ajumobi, also a parent said his daughters fell sick after they returned home for the mid-term break.
When contacted on phone, he said: “Yes, my two daughters at Queens College were both sick. But the older one in SS3 first started complaining of stomach pains and was treated after they came back for the break. What baffled me was that on Tuesday this week, the younger girl in JSS 3 started complaining of the same pain of the lower abdomen. Hence, we had to rush her to the hospital, where she is still receiving treatment now.’’