Rico Swavey -The People That Brought Him In Were The Ones That Were…-Hospital

Rico Swavey – The death of Big Brother Naija Stars death, is still a shock to many, but the Doren Specialist Hospital where he was rushed to, has come forward to say its staff never videoed Rico, much less share the video online.

The hospital made these clarifications in a post on its Instagram page, ostensibly in response to insinuations that it was negligent in handling the star’s death.

Swavey, was involved in a car accident on Tuesday, and was taken to the hospital where he died on Thursday after spending hours on life support.

A tweep who shared the video simply said, “Health attendants were just making videos and laughing while someone was dying. Sorry Rico #ricoswavey.”

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The reactions had been a mixed one, but dominant is the criticism on the hospital for not doing enough, one of those who slammed the hospital being the late star’s fellow housemate, Alex Unusual,

“May God punish these hospitals that take time to start working on people that are rushed to the hospital. You have caused so much pain all for what? What is money that you let lives go like this by stalling?,” she wrote on her Instagram stories.

But reacting, the hospital absolved its staff of blame, saying instead that it handled the case they way it should.

The reactions were obtained on its Instagram page on Friday was titled: ‘incidence report on an RTA case brought to Doren Specialist Hospital on Tuesday 11th October, 2022 at 1:45am’.

There, it alleged amongst others that the patient was brought “smelling of alcohol”, and that efforts were made to resuscitate him.

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“Efforts were made to trace his family and one female friend of his (Miss Ify Helen Eze, phone no- 070**) came into the facility to see him. She and the good Samaritan who brought the patient were told of the severity of his condition, and the need of urgent neurosurgical review and also the need to be referred to Evercare hospital. Miss Ify Helen Eze fainted on seeing his condition and she had to be resuscitated

“A detailed referral letter was written and given to the relations. After an initial reluctance, they accepted the letter. But before leaving the two of them (Miss Ify and the Good Samaritan) decided to make a video to exonerate themselves from being implicated as being responsible for the patient’s condition. Most likely Miss Ify Helen Eze and her partner (Good Samaritan) are the people who videoed and posted on social media for reasons best known to them.

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“Doren Nurses pleaded with them to help take the patient to the vehicle and stop videoing. At no point in time did a Doren staff video the patient or laugh. One of the nurses spoke in Hausa trying to persuade them to assist in moving the patient who has already been positioned on our stair chair ready to be moved to the vehicle. instead they kept videoing.

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“The following morning, our nurses reached out to Miss Ify Helen Eze to find out about the current condition of the patient and we were told the patient was currently hospitalised and receiving care in Evercare Hospital. 72 hours after the referral from Doren Specialist Hospital, we were shocked to hear that the young man had passed on. Doren and its staff empathise with the family of the deceased.”