Deborah Doofan, an ailing student of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), has d!ed.
She is said to have d!ed outside the Emergency Ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, due to lack of a bed space to admit her into a ward in the hospital for prompt treatment.
The first-year student of Banking and Finance at UNIPORT, was studying in school when she suffered a crisis and was rushed to the UNIPORT Teaching Hospital.
The hospital soon discovered she had a swollen heart and referred her to specialists at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
According to her elder brother, “So, she left Port Harcourt and came to Lagos on December 24, 2022. We called LASUTH to know if their specialists were on the ground but we were told that the machine that will be used for the hyperthyroidism treatment was not working.
“The LUTH referred her to the University College Hospital, Ibadan. When we got there, a doctor said she would go through lots of treatments to bring the swollen heart down because her heart was beating very fast.
“She needed to see specialists including an endocrinologist, neurologist, and cardiologist, among others, but the doctor said UCH has the machine for the treatment but the specialists were not on the ground and that she needed to see a cardiologist to certify that her heart was in a good position for them to put her on a machine for the treatment,” her elder brother, Prince told newsmen.
Prince revealed that Doofan was given an appointment to resume her treatment on Monday (today).