Lagos State Hospitals discharge 53 bus-train accident survivors

Twenty-one more survivors of last Thursday’s train-bus collision in Lagos have been discharged. Their discharge yesterday brings to sum total of 53, the total number of injured civil servants being conveyed in the bus to their office when the crash happened at Sogunle.

Meanwhile, Forty-three other injured passengers of the bus are still on admission at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, General Hospital Odan-Lagos and General Hospital, Gbagada.

However, a National Youth Corps (NYSC) member, Oreoluwa Aina, who was one of the six that died in the accident, has been buried.

Report has it that the driver of the bus, Okwuwaseun Osinbajo, was hospitalised during the weekend in Oyingbo after allegedly passing out in custody. According to the Commissioner of Health, Akin Abayomi, who gave the number of newly discharged persons in an update on the accident, said “ Total number of patients on admission as of today March 12, is 43.

“There are 39 patients at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), two at the General Hospital Odan-Lagos and another two at the General Hospital, Gbagada…The total number of patients or passengers discharged is 53.” 

Abayomi added that the fatality figure from the accident remains at six.

The Nation/Wumi