A Lagos-based
senior doctor has died shortly after attending to a patient. Close
relations blamed the death of Dr Akingbade of Veritas Clinics Limited, College
Road, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos on stress, but nonetheless said he had a history of
hypertension.
The
deceased worked at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) for 15
years before retiring as a Senior Medical Officer in 2004, after which he set
up his private clinic.
Sunday
Vanguard learnt that the senior doctor suddenly died in his office in the
clinic, after attending to the patient.
One
of the nurses on duty at Veritas Clinics Limited on the fateful day, Mrs Toyin
Ifesan, narrated: “Our boss died at about 10.30pm shortly after he had closed
for consultation.
He
went to see a patient on admission. Thereafter, he retired to his office and
sat down. A nurse later went in there to ask him to go upstairs, where we
have sleeping facilities, to sleep, having been working since morning.
“On
getting to the office, the nurse spoke to him but she got no response. She then
pushed him, only to find that Dr Akingbade had passed on. The situation
attracted everybody in the clinic”.
Nurse
Ifesan went on: “He was not sick before death. The only thing we noticed
was that, on that day, he was not jovial as he used to be. Unlike him, he
talked to the staff without looking at their faces. He looked at the floor
while talking to the staff.”
The
last born of the deceased, Akinola Akingbade, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard,
said his father was committed to his work and always ready to sacrifice
whatever he could to help patients recover from ailments.
“He
didn’t like people suffering in avoidable situation,”the son said.
Sunday
Vanguard learnt that his colleagues at LASUTH include Doctors Oshinuga,
Wilberforce Aina, Oluseye, Amosu, Adeyemi, Ibirogba and Udofia.
Akingbade
would be buried on January 7 after a funeral service at the City of the Lord
Church, Ifako-Ijaiye.
-Vanguard
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