Third Queen’s College student dies after consuming unclean water
A third student of Queen’s College, Yaba has died following an epidemic that broke out after students of the school consumed food prepared with unclean water.
Hundreds of students of the girls’ only school had fallen critically ill after the water system was contaminated. Two were reported dead at the time.
New reports say another student, identified as Praise Sodipo, who had been on life support at the Intensive Care Unit since falling critically ill, died Thursday night.
Sodipo died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.
The SSS1 student was said to be an orphan.
“She was one of the first set of students that fell ill. She was an orphan. She went into a coma and was on life support, before she eventually passed on. That has made the death toll to be three now,” a parent confirmed to Punch.
Another parent, whose child was reportedly discharged from the hospital on Thursday, called for a probe into the incident.
“This should not be swept under the carpet. There have been three deaths because of the carelessness of one person. We have lost these promising ones and their families are now in sorrow. This case must be probed and all those involved brought to book,” he said.
