Governorship Candidate of the Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 General Election, Dr Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (Jandor), has commiserated with the parents of Adebola Akin-Bright on the untimely death of their son.
He urged the state government to thoroughly investigate all sequences of happenings leading to the late Adebola’s missing intestines from the first private hospital and subsequently at the General Hospital, where he breathed his last.
Adebola, a 13-year-old boy, was discovered to have some part of his small intestine missing while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Lagos before he was taken to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), where he breathed his last yesterday (Tuesday).
The PDP governorship candidate made the call on Wednesday in a statement issued by the Head, Media and Communications JANDOR4GOVERNOR Campaign Organization, Gbenga Ogunleye, even as he flayed the state government for what he described as its lackadaisical approach towards lives of the people it served.
Adediran, who recalled that the state governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had visited the boy on Sunday, 3rd September 2023, during which he promised to take up the expenses for his medical care, sadly noted that it was unfortunate that over two weeks after the said promise, the fund needed for the overseas treatment recommended to save the life of the boy was yet to be released by the state government.
Besides, the PDP governorship candidate also recalled that just early yesterday, the Lagos State House of Assembly called on Governor Sanwo-Olu to direct the Ministry of Health to release the said funds for the overseas treatment of the boy, “but the intervention was rather too late.”
“Sadly Adebola was announced dead yesterday evening,” he sadly said.
Adediran, therefore, concluded that the painful and avoidable death of Akin-Bright was a result of negligence on the part of public officeholders who should prioritize human life above other sentiments, describing the demise of the 13-year-old boy as “one death, too many.”
He, however, said everyone found culpable “in the delay to release funds for his overseas treatment should feel really bad for the avoidable death of Adebola.
“This is one death, too many. Everyone who had a hand in the delay to release funds for his overseas treatment should feel really bad for the avoidable death of Adebola,” he said.
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