About 141 out of 153 bodies of victims of June 3 Dana air crash at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos have so far been released, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof Wale Oke, has said.
He said they were released last Wednesday after DNA test, leaving nine other bodies unclaimed. One hundred and fifty of the bodies were deposited at LASUTH’s morgue.
Oke said the hospital has also issued death certificates to 89 families.
As at August 8, last year, 107 bodies had been released by the hospital.
He said statistics showed that the hospital recorded 94 per cent success handling the crash fall-out, praising Governor Babatunde Fashola for making this possible.
The governor, he said, ensured that the accident was better managed than others in the past before the victims were buried.
“The governor expressed satisfaction with the management of the accident that he sought the decision of the families on the next step since the body identification and DNA have been completed, and assured them that the state was ready to have a cenotaph at the site of the accident in honour of the deceased, if the families gave their approval,” he said.
On state of the teaching hospital, Oke said its Maternal Centre known as Ayinke House is still under reconstruction, adding that it would be opened to the public by the end of May.
“Also, the laboratory is being refurbished and it will be equipped with polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which is a DNA copying machine, among other pressing diagnostic equipment,” he added.
Oke said the hospital is operating a-three level care of health care – primary, secondary and tertiary at the same time, adding that it was established to perform research, training and clinical services.
But because it was a general hospital before its upgrade, patients still come for treatment even for the slightest headache, Oke added.
He said the hospital’s oxygen plant, which started operation of recent, has been supplying LASUTH and other hospitals in the oxygen, which he put at 98 per cent purity.
Tuesday 1 January 2013
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