A colleague of the late Vwaere Diaso, a doctor died after an elevator she was in malfunctioned and fell from the 10th floor to the ground on Tuesday.
Diaso was practicing housemanship at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, and was only two weeks away from completing her housemanship when she died.
Her colleague took to her Twitter page with the username ‘LaseMoye’ to narrate the final moments of late Diaso.
According to Moye, she was standing in front of the elevator and pressed the open button but didn’t enter immediately because she was on a video call. It wasn’t long after that she heard a big crash to the floor.
The impact made the dispatch rider who had brought the food Diaso ordered run out of the building. She said when they discovered Diaso was in the elevator, they rushed to get help.
“They tried to use rods to open it, to be sure it wasn’t a joke. They finally opened it and the sight was gruesome. Muffled sounds of excruciating pain and agony became apparent.
“Her forehead had a horizontal cut, her mouth had another one and she had raccoon eyes. She was lying in between the base of the elevator and the ground floor, with the engine hanging over her head, which meant any miscalculation in movement, she’ll be crushed to instant death.
“She was literally sandwiched in between the hanging engine and below the ground floor with blood on broken glasses and fractured limbs. It’s not a sight to describe.
“I remember telling her to relax and that help was coming,” she said, ‘Don’t tell me to relax, tell them to get me out of here’. We eventually got her out and she kept saying she thinks she’ll die.
“Emergency care was almost zero and inside a hospital for that matter. There was no blood in the hospital. she kept saying I don’t want to die. They commenced CPR and the finality of it all happened,” she wrote.
Meanwhile, Lagos State Government has set up a panel of inquiry made up of a team of officials from the Lagos State Ministry of Health, Lagos State Health Service Commission, Lagos State Safety Commission, and certified Lift and Vertical Transportation Equipment experts.
Authorities have assured that anyone found negligent by the report of the inquiry will face appropriate sanctions.
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