The unhinged offer to save Femi Odekunle from COVID-19 entanglements yielded gifts and vows of more than 170 chambers of oxygen from his family, companions and close partners, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.
Mr Odekunle, a teacher of criminology and individual from the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), fought the profoundly irresistible sickness for 12 days.
PREMIUM TIMES detailed how the educator was left wheezing for air during his treatment because of deficiencies in oxygen supply at the seclusion place at the Abuja University Teaching Hospital Gwagwalada. He kicked the bucket on Tuesday night at the office.
In an offer to save him, his companions, to a great extent top government authorities and legislators revitalized for oxygen from all over to help his breathing, those acquainted with the issue disclosed to PREMIUM TIMES.
This brought about the gift of more than 170 oxygen chambers by companions and partners. It is hazy if a portion of the vows were in the end recovered since the teacher passed on before a decent number of the gear are conveyed.
The emergency clinic's Chief Medical Director (CMD), Bissallah Ekele, conceded there was deficiency of oxygen in the office, a circumstance he accused on the new flood in Covid diseases formally proclaimed the subsequent wave.
He, in any case, said Mr Odekunle passed on due to the "seriousness of his contamination."
The clinical chief, in an instant message Thursday evening to this correspondent, said "when we had the emergencies a week ago, a few patients and different Hospitals in the FCT upheld us with chambers of Oxygen yet that was settled when the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 pursued into the issue and we presently have sufficient stock!"
Scramble for Oxygen
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, marking the Y2021 Appropriation Bill into Law at Lagos House, Marina, on Thursday, December 31, 2020.
As indicated by subtleties got by PREMIUM TIMES, there were different intercessions by the legislative heads of Lagos and Osun, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Adegboyega Oyetola, the wellbeing service, the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, and the Air Force to get oxygen for Mr Odekunle.
Rauf Aregbesola, the clergyman of inside, drove the mediation cycle, our sources said.
While endeavors to get oxygen started throughout the end of the week, a considerable lot of them didn't show up before Tuesday night when Mr Odekunle passed on.
Our sources said the Gwagwalada confinement focus quickly sent 100 major chambers, through the endeavors of the Nigerian Air Force, for top off in Yola, the Adamawa State capital. Those were charged to be conveyed to Abuja on Tuesday.
The office was likewise to get around 50 major chambers from Jos on Tuesday. It is muddled who made that gift.
PREMIUM TIMES discovered that 10 oxygen chambers were conveyed to Mr Odekunle's bedside by a contributor distinguished as NHA late Monday.
Likewise, four major chambers were positioned at Air Force base, Ikeja, Lagos, to be traveled to Mr Odekunle's ward on Tuesday morning.
Another 10 major oxygen chambers were likewise masterminded by Olu Aina, a teacher, and Mr Aregbesola, from Osogbo, and were booked to be traveled to Abuja by uncommon helicopter.
This paper likewise discovered that one major chamber was given by the Nigerian Air Force and was conveyed to Mr Odekunle's ward by his child, Dayo, and an authority of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
"A ton of the oxygen obtained for Professor Odekunle were not conveyed before he kicked the bucket," a partner of the late University instructor said. "I think in light of a legitimate concern for humankind, his loved ones ought to guarantee that all the oxygen chambers gave and swore are conveyed to the disengagement community to save the lifes of patients still alive."
In an assertion he delivered after Mr Odekunle's entry, previous Minister Olu Agunloye said the late educator's "companions rose forcefully to his help … however it was simply past the point of no return."
"Top Government functionaries among them drove by Hon Minister Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola alongside President's Spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, SGF Boss Mustapher and two sitting Governors tore through organizations and red tapes and pulled stunts however the harms to Femi's wellbeing seemed to have gone excessively far for cure," Mr Agunloye said.
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