The Federal Government of Nigeria urgently needs to intervene to fly Mrs Queeneth Owolabi abroad for treatment, or else she would have her
toes and fingers amputated due to gangrene infection. Mrs Owolabi is one of the
surviving cabin crew members on the ill-fated Associated Airlines plane that
crashed in Lagos two weeks ago.
The amputation was to be done yesterday at the
Nigerian Air Force, NAF, base hospital in Ikeja, where she had been
hospitalised since the crash, but her husband refused it. Mrs. Owolabi survived the crash alongside six
others, although two of the survivors later died at the Lagos State University
Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.
Vanguard
gathered, yesterday, that the husband of the victim have been making frantic efforts
to reach the Federal Government for his wife to be flown abroad for treatment
to stave off the amputation, especially as the government was said to be
responsible for her treatment thus far.
National
President of Nigerian Airlines Cabin Crew Association, NACCA, Mr. Charles
Onuoha, who confirmed the development, appealed to the Federal Government to
urgently come to the rescue of the crash victim. According to him, Owolabi’s 10
toes and the five fingers of the left hand have been marked for amputation
because of the infection that had set in.
He said:
“We are
calling for referral for overseas treatment, a post-trauma stress assessment
and de-briefing for Mrs Quinneth Owolabi, and her colleague, Miss Toyin Samson,
currently on admission at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH,
Lagos.“We are appealing for government’s intervention because that is the only
thing that can stop this amputation.”
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