• Colleagues down tools in three facilities • Diaso was the brightest, happiest of all, classmate says It was a shattered dream for Edo-born medical doctor, Dr Vwaere Diaso, who died on Tuesday at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, after an elevator she took crashed. The doctor, who was inducted last year, after a…• Diaso was the brightest, happiest of all, classmate says
Before Dr Diaso joined the hospital as a student doctor, resident doctors and staff of the hospital had reported that the elevator had been in bad condition since 2011, coupled with other infrastructural challenges in the hospital. Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Gboyega Akosile, and the Director Public Affairs, Ministry of Health, Olatunbosun Ogunbanwo, said that the state government was investigating the root cause of the incident.
“I worked there from 2021 to 2022, and we complained bitterly about the elevator. I was once stuck in the elevator and I was lucky to be rescued. Almost all the doctors have been stuck in the elevator. “We spoke on how she would start working where I am working now and she was looking forward to starting her house job with us.”