Tears As Corpses Of Six Doctors And Their Driver Who Died In Crash Arrive In Ado-Ekiti
Family
members and relations of six medical doctors and their driver who lost
their lives in a fatal auto crash rolled on the ground and were
inconsolable when their bodies arrived in Ado-Ekiti yesterday.
Tears
flowed yesterday as the bodies of the six medical doctors and their
driver, who died in an accident, arrived in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State
capital.
The
doctors were on their way to the Annual General Conference of the
Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Sokoto, when they had an accident
on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway.
The
survivors and the bodies were conveyed in seven ambulances and were
received by Governor Ayo Fayose and other senior government officials.
The six
doctors were Tunde Aladesanmi of the Federal Teaching Hospital,
Ido-Ekiti (FETHI); Ojo Taiwo of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital
(EKSUTH); NMA Secretary Akinyele Alex; J. Ogunseye of the Hospitals
Management Board; President, EKSUTH branch of Association of Resident
Doctors (ARD), O. Olajide, Dr Adeniyi James of the FETHI and their
driver, Moses Ajibola.
The
convoy of ambulances arrived in Ado-Ekiti at 6.30 pm accompanied by
policemen, officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Civil Defence
Corps and officials of the Department of State Services (DSS).
The train moved slowly through the town and headed for EKSUTH, where the bodies were deposited in the mortuary.
Six survivors, including the NMA State Chairman, Dr. John Akinbote, dressed in black, accompanied the ambulances.
Some residents wept.
Fayose,
who was dressed in black, was joined by Deputy Governor Kolapo Olusola
to receive the bodies at Fajuyi Park from where the ambulances moved to
the EKSUTH morgue.
There was a huge traffic between Fajuyi Park and EKSUTH as Fayose and his team joined the procession to the hospital.
The governor promised to immortalise the doctors and assist their families.
-The Nation
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