General Hospitals insisted on payment before treatment, residents say
While talks about penultimate Thursday’s petrol fire explosion at Ijegun, Lagos, may have died down, residents are daily counting their losses, especially as they claim that the death toll has continued to increase. Dorcas Egede reports.
According to an eyewitness, up to 10 tankers had come for fuel and about eight had loaded and gone before the unfortunate incident happened. Spill-over of fuel had flowed into the gutters around the area and into the canal that passes through Catholic Mission Street. With their help, this reporter headed towards Catholic Mission Street. It looked like a ghost town, but people were seen in clusters, obviously still discussing the disaster, nearly a week after. Sorrow was etched on every single brow.
A few meters away were some middle-aged men and women discussing in low tones. When the reporter approached them, a man who wouldn’t give his name but described himself as a friend of the late Adeboye said, “We came here because of Sakiru Adebayo who died with his wife and two children.”As if propelled by the rage of the under-reporting of the number of casualty, there was this sudden cacophony of voices, as everyone in the group wanted to say something.
Four houses were affected on Catholic Mission Street while the raging fire licked the fences of some houses on Church Street. Rotibi however said nobody died on Church Street. Adeleke Adejare, who is Chairman of Catholic Mission Street residents, told Sunday Nation that “23 persons from four houses were badly affected by the fire. As I speak, 15 out of those persons have died.”
“They refused to start treating them until we raised money to take to them; yet we didn’t have good result.”
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