Unless a miracle happens, or the Federal Government urgently
intervenes to fly Mrs Queeneth Owolabi abroad for treatment, she would have her
toes and fingers amputated due to gangrene infection. Mrs Owolabi is one of the surviving cabin crew members on the ill-fated
Associated Airlines plane that crashed in Lagos two weeks ago.
But for her husband’s resistance, the amputation would have
been done yesterday at the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, base hospital in Ikeja,
where she had been hospitalised since the crash. Mrs. Owolabi survived the crash alongside six others,
although two of the survivors later died at the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital, LASUTH.
Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that the husband of the victim
was making frantic efforts to reach the Federal Government for his wife to be
flown abroad for treatment to stave off the amputation, especially as the
government was said to be responsible for her treatment thus far.
National President of Nigerian Airlines Cabin Crew
Association, NACCA, Mr. Charles Onuoha, who confirmed the development, appealed
to the Federal Government to urgently come to the rescue of the crash victim. According
to him, Owolabi’s 10 toes and the five fingers of the left hand have been
marked for amputation because of the infection that had set in.
He said:
“We are calling for referral for overseas treatment, a
post-trauma stress assessment and de-briefing for Mrs Quinneth Owolabi, and her
colleague, Miss Toyin Samson, currently on admission at Lagos State University
Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Lagos.“We are appealing for government’s
intervention because that is the only thing that can stop thisamputation.”
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