FIVE out of the 12 students of Ogba Junior Grammer
School Lagos who slumped after inhaling poisonous gas were yesterday discharged
from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and taken home by
their parents, while one is still in the intensive care unit. Those discharged
are Idowu Modupe (13; Tijani Mariam (12; Muiz Radiat (11; Adebiyi Taiwo (14 and
Aladokun Subaydah (13, while 18-year-old Lateef Nojeem remains at the intensive
care unit of the hospital. At the Surgical Emergency intensive unit where
Najeem is receiving treatment, she said that she was also a victim of the
previous incident. She said the incident happened shortly after the students
were returning to their classrooms after the lunch break. “After the normal
break, as we were moving back into the class, we started inhaling an odour. We
were instructed by the teacher to go out of the class because of the odour. The
next place I found myself was in the hospital. I am getting better now.” The
Chief Medical Director, Professor David Adewale Oke, a consultant Cardiologist
of LASUTH, said at he received a call from the Commissioner of Health at about
3pm on Thursday that there was an explosion in Ogba and that his men should be
at alert.
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