According to reports, a psychiatric doctor, whose identity is yet-to-be ascertained, and three nurses escaped being killed by the protesting patients. But the doctor suffered teeth bites.
The
violent protest took staff of the health facility by surprise, and lasted for
over two hours.
Later,
police operatives from the Lafenwa Divisional Headquarters intervened and brought
the situation under control.
Furthermore,
it was gathered that the patients were protesting poor feeding, poor sanitary
system, as well as absence of alternative electricity supply, anytime the
Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), cuts power supply.
Some
relatives of the patients, who spoke with newsmen, said the matter had been on
for a while before some of the patients resorted to protesting the situation.
They
said it was the result of a lack of solutions to the problems.
A
female relative of one of the patients, who pleaded anonymity, said the least
amount being paid by each of the patients ranges from N500,000 to N700,000.
The
person said the cost depends on the period of the patients’ stay in the
facility.
The
Public Relations Officer of the facility, Abiola Ajibola speaking on the
development, said the matter was “just an internal affairs” which had been
redressed.
Speaking
on the development, after securing the approval from the State Commissioner of
Police, Abiodun Alamutu, the Lafenwa Divisional Police Officer, Enatufe Omoh,
said only one of the psychiatric doctors was assaulted.
He said
the doctor sustained varying degree of teeth bites from the protesting on-admission
psychiatric patients.
Enatufe,
a Chief Superintendent of Police, spoke with newsmen at exactly 8: 05 p.m.
He
stated that the protesters had disagreements with their handlers at the
facility, having been denied some privileges.
The DPO
said their grouse included seeing their relations who would take them home
after being discharged from the hospital, as well as not being allowed to
freely move around.
However,
he denied the death of anybody within the period the protests lasted.
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