A Unilorin undergraduate dies,As medical practioners embark on strike

Firstclass newsline has learnt that the ongoing strike in University
of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, UITH, Ilorin, Kwara State, has led to the
untimely death of a female student of the university, who was rushed
there on emergency.
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali, recalled the sad
incident at a meeting with journalists.
He explained that the female student was admitted in the university
clinic for three days until there was the need to rush her to the
teaching hospital, when her condition became critical.
Ambali said: "Unfortunately, when she was taken to the teaching
hospital, there was no one to attend to her because they are on strike
and by the time she was taken to another private hospital, which was
not also in full operations, the lady had passed on."
Professor Ambali also expressed concern over the high rate of
expulsion of students in the university.
He noted that the university authorities always felt sad whenever it
resorted to expulsion, adding that the number of expelled students was
negligible compared to the total number of students in the university.
"We are established to produce graduates worthy in moral, character,
and academic ability that will in turn be models in the society,
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