Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Saturday assured that replacement of the elevator that crashed and killed Dr Vwaere Diaso at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island, had begun.
The hospital’s elevator crashed from the 10th floor to the ground floor on Aug. 1, 2023, killing Dr Diaso, a resident doctor.
“Contract has been awarded to a major construction company to install a new elevator and it is already working on the contract,’’ Prof. Abayomi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
“The elevator crashed and killed one of our colleagues. We are not just going to go and install another elevator.
“We have to understand what caused the elevator to crash. Is it a problem with the elevator or with infrastructure?
He appealed to Lagos State residents to exercise patience as efforts were being made to ensure that there was no recurrence.
“The public has to be patient with us; we are doing an extremely thorough job in that place. It is on-going at the moment,’’ Abayomi said.
(NAN)