“I Don’t Want To Die” – Says Doctor Killed In Elevator Accident At Lagos Hospital [Video]

A lady identified as Lase Moye has shared the last moments of Dr. Vwaere Diaso, a medical doctor who died at Lagos Island General Hospital, Odan.

Dr. Vwaere Diaso lost her life on Monday, July 31, after being trapped in an elevator at Lagos General Hospital, Odan, for over 40 minutes without access to blood for resuscitation.

The doctor died after the elevator she was in at the general hospital, fell from the 10th floor when she was on her way to the ground floor to receive a food delivery from a dispatch rider.

Taking to her Twitter page @LaseMoye, the lady who also works at the hospital, revealed that she was standing in front of the elevator, but didn’t enter because she was on a video call.

Moye said she had pressed the elevator’s open button and was on a video call when she heard a big crash to the floor which made the dispatch rider who brought food for Diaso to run out of the building.

She recounted how an alarm was raised, revealing that Diaso was trapped inside the elevator, and people at the scene quickly sought help to bring her out, using rods to open the elevator doors.

“They tried to use rods to open it, to be sure it wasn’t a joke. They finally opened it and the sight was gruesome. Muffled sounds of excruciating pain and agony became apparent.

“Her forehead had a horizontal cut, her mouth had another one and she had raccoon eyes. She was lying in between the base of the elevator and the ground floor with the engine hanging over her head which meant any miscalculation in movement, she’ll be crushed to instant death!

“She was literally sandwiched in between the hanging engine and below the ground floor with blood on broken glasses and fractured limbs. It’s not a sight to describe,” she wrote.

Lase Moye revealed that engineers were called to dismantle the elevator, but it took nearly 40 minutes for them to arrive. During this time, Diaso was in a critical condition, repeatedly expressing her fear of dying.

“I remember telling her to relax that help is coming, she said “Don’t tell me to relax, tell them to get me out of here”. We eventually got her out and she kept saying she thinks she’ll die.

“Emergency care was almost zero and inside a hospital for that matter. There was no blood in the hospital.

“She was eventually wheeled out but she was already weak and kept saying ”I don’t want to die”. They commenced CPR and the finality of it all happened,” she wrote.

The deceased’s colleague lamented that complaints about the faulty elevator had been raised by the hospital staff for years but were consistently ignored.

“I remember the last time we complained they said we should manage that in their time they were sleeping in call rooms during their horsemanship days and we are lucky we have water, lift and rooms to live in and we aren’t grateful.

“It’s like we are asking for too much? They were not even giving us the barest minimum and they shut us up when we complained,” she wrote.

Doctor Vwaere Diaso was said to have been a Grady Babcock University graduate who had two weeks left to complete her housemanship.

Watch the video below:

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— lase_moye (@LaseMoye) August 2, 2023

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State chapter, has called for an indefinite strike among doctors over the death of Dr. Vwaere Diaso.