FG to sue hospital over death of ‘one chance’ victim in Abuja

Uju Ohanenye, the minister of women affairs, says a pre-action letter will be sent to staff of the Maitama general hospital over the death of Greatness Olorunfemi, a victim of ‘one chance’.

She said this while addressing journalists on Monday in Abuja.

WHAT IS ‘ONE CHANCE’?

‘One chance’ is a type of robbery in which unsuspecting passengers are lured into commercial vehicles whose occupants are robbers.

The robbers then attack and strip the victims of all their valuables.

On September 26, Olorunfemi was said to have been pushed off a moving vehicle, believed to be a ‘one chance’ car, along the Maitama-Kubwa expressway.

She was left severely injured and was rushed to the hospital for medical attention.

However, she was allegedly rejected by the officers on duty at the healthcare facility, who insisted on a police report.

She was reported to have died moments later.

‘WE ARE GIVING THEM 7 DAYS TO REPLY’

“We were able to get the names of those on duty that day, the medical director and chief matron, accident and emergency,” Ohanenye said. 

“We will sue the staff, which will make others sit up.

“We have written a pre-action letter, which they will get to tell them about our intention to take them to court. And we are giving them seven days to reply to that.

“Then after the seven days pre-action notice, the ministry of women affairs through the minister for women affairs will stand for the lady, all Nigerian women and girls to defend them on this issue of treating them any how.”

The minister also said her office would write to the national assembly to also take up the matter and see that justice is served.

“Then we are writing to public complaints committee at the national assembly to look into the matter and call not only these people but all the CMDs of hospitals in FCT and even across,” she said.

“They need to summon them for these issues to be addressed once and for all. Nigerians cannot continue dying carelessly like that.

“Then we are equally writing to the senate president on the same issue.”

She also said even though they had been informed that the ministry had been added to the investigative panel on the matter, they were yet to receive any official letter to that effect.