“YabaTech, FMC lied about Dazan Charity” – grieving friend writes

YabaTech claims Dazan was rushed to FMC by 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and that she died on the way. FMC said Dazan died 10 minutes after being admitted. Those are their claims. Here’s the story from the pen of someone who saw it all happen.

Dazan Mautin Charity, 27, woke up on Tuesday and was complaining of cold. She requested for my jacket which I gave her to wear and we went to class because we had a paper to write that Tuesday.

On getting to the exam hall, the lecturer in-charge saw her and said we couldn’t do the exam unless Dazan was okay.

I asked Dazan if she could write the exam and she said yes. But the lecturer said it means she needed to eat something so I rushed down to get her malt and egg roll. I also got her paracetamol because we thought it was a normal sickness.

After the exam, she was waiting for me to take her to the room but I had to release her because I was busy with my paper and so she left.

I got back to the room around 3:00 p.m. but there was nobody in the room. Around 5 or 6 p.m., two of our roommates entered and were like “do you know they’ve taken Dazan to the medical centre?” I initially thought she had gone to church.

We dressed up…the three of us…and went to medical centre.

When we got there, the first nurse we saw told us Dazan needed to eat something that she hadn’t eaten anything since morning. So me and one of our roommates left to get her something to eat. On our way, we bought rice at a restaurant and took it to her.

When I got there, I saw her sister with food and some drugs. She told me that Dazan had eaten, that she won’t be able to eat the rice I bought for her. But when Dazan saw the stew, she tasted it and we finished the remaining for her.

Her sister told me that the doctor prescribed some drugs for her and that she and one of her church members had been looking for the drugs up and down the street. They had to buy the ones they saw.

The nurses in charge then said she was going release Dazan after the drip she was taking. Then she’d be free to go back to her room because there was no bed space for her to sleep in.

Then my question went:… “How can a patient be given drugs, injection, drip without knowing the nature of her sickness?” Hmmm…what a medical centre.

On hearing that she would be discharged, Dazan had to increase the drip rate (make it go faster) without the consent of the nurses. But I learnt that the doctor that attended to her in the afternoon said she must not be discharged.

She was discharged after the drip ran it course. On our way, she was complaining of leg pains that she couldn’t lift her legs up. Then I told her to sit on the pavement at the medical centre. But the church member with her was like “sister, you are wicked o. Let her go inside.”

That was when a nurse from the medical centre advised her to sit on a chair for some time before going as the ambulance was organised for her.

The ambulance took us to the hostel. But since Dazan could not walk, I had to carry her up the stairs. When we got to the room, she took her bath (I did that for her). And I changed her clothing. But she was complaining of pains in her legs and hands. Myself and the roommates tried to massage her hands and legs but there were no changes.

Her fingers were getting cold. We thought she was reacting to the drugs they gave her at the medical centre. When the complains was much we had to rush her back to medical.

At medical, the first question a nurse asked was “What’s your genotype and blood group?” Dazan said AA. The nurse asked again and Dazan kept saying AA. But the nurse said that was a lie. That she felts Dazan was SS. (We’d been together since HND1, Dazan never fell sick. We were at Togo for three months, no sickness. But I was sick. We came back, no sickness for Dazan still. So I don’t know where the SS came from).

The nurses at the medical were confused as par what to give her. One was saying they should give her water. Another said no. She said they should give her one drug. I can’t recall the name she called it.

In the end, they passed another drip into her body. At this time it was so obvious that Dazan needed blood. One of the nurses passed the first drip and was arranging for the second drip but she couldn’t locate Dazan’s vein.

Then I shouted at them that they should give her blood because she was white, pale…and her veins couldn’t be spotted.

So a nurse told me to go to the room to get her things. On my way back, I met Dazan’s sister. She told me that she has been referred to FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTRE (FMC, Ebute Metta). She said that she came to call the church member for money.

The next thing I saw was the ambulance that came to carry myself and the sister. They said Dazan’s condition was getting out of hand. We followed the bus and somebody carried Dazan as we rushed her to FMC.

When we got to FMC, Dazan was in a critical condition. A female doctor came out but didn’t move close to her.

The only thing she asked was “are you here with money?”

Then we told her we came with N3,000 and she was like N3,000 is nothing. She said the admission fee alone is N35,000 not to talk of every other drug Dazan would be given.

The YabaTech nurse and driver were begging the doctor to please admit Dazan. That one of us would go and look for the money but she insisted on seeing the money.

Another doctor from FMC came out and checked Dazan. The doctor said she was “paperwhite.”

Dazan was SHOUTING “HELP ME, HELP ME, HELP, I’M DYING. She even called my name but there was nothing I could do about it. She was screaming. Then the female doctor told her to stop making noise.

She asked if we have called her family but Dazan said I shouldn’t call her parents because her mother was very sick. The dad too isn’t okay. But I insisted on calling somebody so she gave out her sister’s number.

Then I heard the female doctor saying she couldn’t do anything…that they were going to remove it from her salary.
The male doc passed a drip into her that he feels should help her. He told us that we should come with donors when coming back.

We rushed Dazan back to school to collect money from medical because they already called the driver to come for the money. The doctor (at YabaTech medical) gave them N10,000 and a student from Dazan’s church dropped N25,000 making N35,000.

We waited for the donors…three from her church. And we rushed back to FMC but the doctor said we needed to pay the admission fee before attending to her.

They requested for her details and told me to me to go pay for urgent PVC. When I returned I saw the doctors trying to save Dazan, putting up oxygen and all that but it was too late.

And that was how I lost a good friend. I lost her due to the doctor’s action. If she had attended to her the first time, I believe this would not have happened. But she refused because of money.

Some said Dazan had an abortion. Some said she was a sickle cell (SS) carrier. Dazan Mautin Charity Oluwabukola was a virgin. Her genotype was AA. Please, I beg of you: Stop spreading fake news about her.

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