The Lagos State Government on Sunday announced the suspension of the General Manager of the Lagos State Infrastructure and Asset Management Agency (LASIAMA), Adenike Adekanbi.
The decision followed the recommendation by the panel earlier set up to investigate the circumstances that surrounded the death of Vwaere Diaso, a medical doctor.
Ms Diaso was trapped in a faulty elevator that crashed at the doctors’ staff quarters on 1 August at the Lagos General Hospital, Odan.
LASIAMA is the agency that oversees the activities of the facility management company in charge of the staff quarters where Ms Diaso died.
The new development is in a statement shared on the official X (formerly Twitter) page of the Lagos State Government on Sunday.
According to the statement, an unnamed facility management company in charge of the staff quarters has also been sacked and blacklisted by the government.
The statement reads in part, “The operations and line of reporting of the facility managers have been restructured to involve the hospital management directly.
“We have handed the installation and maintenance contractors to the police for further investigation and likely prosecution if they are found culpable. The police will also investigate anyone else that might have been found to be negligent.”
According to the panel’s findings, the government noted that the incident happened around 6.50 p.m. and that due to the impact, the elevator doors were damaged and needed to be forced open to rescue the trapped house officer.
“She was extracted at about 7.50 p.m., and resuscitation commenced immediately. She was wheeled to the emergency room and was immediately attended to by a medical team led by a highly experienced consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon.
“Despite all the efforts, she stopped breathing around 8.13 p.m., and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) commenced. This went on until 8.59 p.m. when she was pronounced dead.”
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