Yabatech: Friends relate heartbreaking story of how Charity Dazan died

 – The friends of the recently deceased Yabatech student Charity Dazan have spoken about her death.

 – She died after failing to receive proper medical treatment.

 – Yabatech responded to news of her death furiously and have protested violently.

The controversy surrounding the death of YabaTech Oluwabukola student Charity Dazan is continuing to grow every day.

Newsroom NG has spoken in detail with her friends who were with her in her final moments as well as with many of the students who protested Dazan’s tragic fate.

The sources all spoke anonymously, here are their stories.

“This is due to absolute neglect on the part of the YabaTech authorities and Nigerian medical workers outside the walls of this school,” one of them said.

Oluwabukola Charity Dazan, 27, finished writing a practical examination (Advanced Web Page Design) around 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday when she suddenly fell ill.

She went to the medical center to be attended to when her condition deteriorated.

“They simply gave her paracetamol or something and refused to let her into the sick ward where there are beds she could sleep in,” the student said.

“Dazan was not allowed past the clinic’s lobby. I wasn’t surprised. That’s how they do here. They are pathetic.

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Dazan’s friends decided to take her to a hostel (Akata Hall) where she could rest on a “manageable” bed.

This was around 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

“One hour later, she was complaining of having pains in both hands so we rushed her back to the medical center,” another student said.

“They just checked her and gave her some drugs again. However, did not admit her into the sick ward. She was again restricted to the lobby. They said there were no available beds inside the sick ward.

“Around 10:00 p.m., the school medics discharged her again but this time she could neither stand nor walk.

Missed chances and greed

Dazan could have been taken to hospital at this point, however she was taken back to the hospital where some of her friends bathed her.

 “Around 11:00 p.m., she started complaining again…this time bitterly,” another student said.

“So we returned her to the medical center. The medics, this time, referred her to the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Ebute-Metta.

“They drove her there in their bus with a letter from the chief doctor at Yabatech medical center.

“FMC officials told us they won’t attend to Dazan until a N35,000 admission fee and some other registration fee were paid. Everything totalled approximately N43,000,” Dazan’s friend said.

“We pleaded with FMC to begin treating Dazan as we would go out in search of the money.

“But FMC refused and told us to take Dazan’s weak body. I was particularly shocked by their statement and body language. They didn’t act like they had children or were human for that matter.

“So we drove Dazan back to YabaTech to raise the money. The chief doctor at YabaTech gave us N10,000.  Dazan’s fellowship (YabaTech Cherubim and Seraphim, C&S, Fellowship) raised N25,000. Dazan’s roommates raised N3,000.

With the money now raised, Dazan’s friends went back to the hospital as quickly as possible, but she was already deteriorating.

“I’m dying, please help me, I’m dying”

 “On returning to FMC, we were instructed to follow due process in paying the fees. FMC said treatment would not commence until we presented the receipts, Dazan’s despondent friend said.

“At this point, Dazan started saying, albeit faintly ‘I’m dying, please help me. I’m dying. I’m dying. Help me’.”

“‘Shut up and keep quite my friend’, a doctor shut her down.

“We split ourselves into two groups. Some went to pay the admission fee. The other group went to pay for drip and blood. Our nurse was with FMC staff and Dazan.

“Before we returned, FMC had taken Dazan into the ward and ran some tests on her. That’s what they told us when we returned to present the receipts. It was around 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday now. We were told the test result was ‘paperwhite’.

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After Dazan’s friends received this bizarre news, the worst possible thing happened.

“They said they couldn’t locate Dazan’s veins. So there was no way they could pass any water or blood into her bloodstream. In fact, they said she had no single drop of blood left in her body. We were wondering what this could mean,” one of her friends said.

“When the medics at FMC returned to Dazan’s bed, they found her dead. That’s how this evil system took our friend away. Just like that. They said only the N600 money for card would be refunded. The rest wasn’t refundable.

“FMC also refused to issue Dazan’s death certificate because she didn’t stay up to 24 hours at the facility,” another student said.

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“Dazan’s dead body was driven back to YabaTech medical center some minutes after 2:00 a.m.

“However, YabaTech medics left her corpse in the bus and failed to wash or dress her. She had defecated on herself in her last moments. They left her there, in her mess, till daybreak.

“It was around 8:00 a.m. when one of us who didn’t follow us to FMC went looking for Dazan. She thought her classmate was still alive.”

The classmate in question was tracked down by reports, here’s what she said:

“She smelled, she was swollen”

“I didn’t know she had died. I went to the medical center and searched the sick ward but couldn’t find Dazan on any of the beds. I didn’t know what to think.

“The medical center’s bus was parked inside the premises. On my way out, I noticed there were flies in and around the ambulance. There were lots of flies. That was when it hit me,” she said.

“I moved closer to the bus and took a look. Dazan was there, dead. She smelled. She was swollen. The nurses didn’t take care of the body.

“When the security officers knew what I had discovered, they rushed towards me and dragged me away. I was shocked.”

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Dazan (January 9, 1989 – February 10, 2016) was an only child whose parents live in Oko Afon, Badagry in Lagos state. They are originally from Cotonou in the Benin Republic.

Dazan was a coordinator of her campus fellowship, described as a mummy to other students.

Since Dazan’s father lost his legs in an accident two years ago, she had to fend for herself. Her mother also recently suffered stroke.

“She struggled for the past two years to pay her school fees and make ends meet…on her own,” one of her close friends said.

“Dazan was just two weeks from graduating from this school and this tragedy took her from us.

“This is sad,” the friend said.

Dazan was buried at Atan Cemetery near the University of Lagos.

Her burial was well attended by YabaTech students many of whom barricaded University Road.

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The angry students locked down the school and staged demonstrations at YabaTech’s back gate, main gate, administrative block and the medical center.

They later vandalised the medical center and set fire to it, saying that the medical center should be tagged “YabaTech Paracetamol Medical Center.”

“Whatever you say is wrong with you, all they do is give you paracetamol,” an angry student said.

“Yet we pay over N3,000 for medicals every session…45,000 of us. Do the maths. Yet, this thing they call medical center is nothing but a mess. It’s totally useless.”

“All they do is take the money while students suffer and die like nobodies.”

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