Building collapse: Adebule visits victims at Lagos general hospital

Lagos State deputy governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, has visited the Lagos General Hospital, Marina, assuring the public especially parents and guardians of the Ohen private Nursery /Primary School, Lagos Island, whose building collapsed Wednesday morning, that top rescue operation is ongoing to ensure the safety and rescue of the trapped pupils and staff of the school.

The three storey building that occupies Ohen Nursery / Primary School on Lagos Island collapsed in the early hours of Wednesday and some pupils and staff of the school were trapped in the rubble.

The deputy governor, who abandoned her official engagement to visit the victims at the hospital, urged parents to remain calm and be prayerful as top rescue operation has been put in place by the state government to ensure the rescue of all trapped victims in the collapsed building.

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The deputy governor urged parents, who were anxious to see their wards, to allow medical doctors and government rescue team to do their work in attending promptly to the injured and protecting the lives of the victims.

Adebule, while commiserating with the families of the affected pupils, assured that the state government would do it’s best to ensure that best medical attention was given to those that had been rescued so far, adding that efforts would be intensified to bring out safely other pupils and staff that were still trapped.

She stated that it was too early to give the numbers of the casualty of the incident, assuring that the state government would issue official information on the tragic incident in no distance time.