By Elizabeth Uwandu
Please disregard the malicious rumour about outbreak of epidemic in Queen’s College. There is nothing like that as the college had her annual Inter -House Athletics Competition on Wednesday 23rd Feb, 2017. Everybody present at the event could testify that there wasn’t any outbreak of any epidemic in the school.
The college is now on Mid Term break and no student is on admission at the sick bay. We implore you all to calm down as there is nothing to panic about”. With those words, in a text message to parents, the management of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, last month, dismissed the claim that there was an epidemic in the school.
It also said no student died contrary to the claim in some quarters. But the father of one of the students of the school, Vivian, Mr Michael Osuinyi, said his daughter died a week before the college inter-house sports as a result of water contamination..
According to him, Vivian, 13, died on February 15 whereas the inter-house sports took place on February 23. The father said the school’s PTA called him when he went to bury the daughter in the village to confirm that it was contaminated water that caused the death.
Mr Osuinyi, after the requiem mass organised for her daughter, on Monday, at St Pio Catholic Church, Orile, Lagos, gave an insight into what he claimed happened. He told Sunday Vanguard that he didn’t want to say anything on Vivian’s death because he already left the judgment in the hands of God but that the text message circulated to the parents got him annoyed. He said it was like trying to cover up as if his daughter’s life that was cut short did not matter to the Queen’s College management.
Mr Osuinyi, who called himself a former Queen’s College parent, said, “My daughter’s death was caused by gross neglect on the part of the school authorities.
“Vivian was released by the school to us on Saturday, February 11, around 7pm, after receiving a call at 5pm from the school within an hour’s notice of her being seriously sick. She was being given malaria drugs despite her stooling and vomiting. She took the drugs judiciously yet her condition deteriorated. She was taken to two hospitals where doctors confirmed her dehydration before she died on Wednesday”.
He went on: “ My question is, why did the school authorities give my daughter and other students who had complained of being sick malaria drugs, even after the Parent Teacher Association Chairman, Mr Ofor Dike, called to commiserate with my family, admitting that the school water was contaminated?
“Why was there no immediate treatment given to the students or the students sent home to avoid the death? Rather, the Chairman said he personally bought 3,000 bags of pure water for the students? What happened after that? Why were the students stopped from calling their parents in case of emergency? And why was my family not called until 5pm on Saturday, February 11 to inform us of Vivian deteriorating situation? These are the questions I am asking QC.”
Meanwhile, Alhaja Shittu, the Vice Chairman, PTA of the Queen’s School, who was also at the mass, accused some parents of trying to spoil the name of the school rather than urging calm when some parents told her to call for parents meeting before the school’s resumption from Mid-Term holiday.
On the part of the old girls association of the school, they prefer to just monitor the situation since the government wants to investigate. A member of the association, who spoke anonymously, said they took the position in order not pre-empt the outcome of the investigation
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