82-year-old Alhaja Misturat Amodu, one of the survivors of the three-storey building that collapsed at Odunfa, Lagos Island, early on Wednesday, died at about 5:00pm same day.
She died at the Lagos Island General Hospital a few hours after she was rescued from the collapsed building.
Efforts by doctors to save her life from the injury she sustained on her thigh and other parts of her body proved abortive.
Confirming her death, the daughter of the deceased, Alhaja Fatimah, and her husband, Alhaji Tajudeen Ishola, said the deceased died at about 5:00pm after regaining consciousness.
Tajudeen explained that the octogenarian regained consciousness, demanded for water and died some minutes later.
“She spoke with us around 4pm. She said she was thirsty and a doctor told us to go and buy lucozade boost which she drank.
‘’We were preparing to do the X-ray on her thigh when everything changed. She died at about 5pm. She was well taken care of at the hospital. Mama hailed from Ilorin and she was 82 years old,” he said.
However daughter of the deceased, Fatimah Ishola, alleged that the late octogenarian would not have died had the hospital commenced treatment immediately she was rushed in.
She said: “They (medical officials) didn’t commence the treatment immediately Mama was rushed to the hospital by officials of Lagos State Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS.
‘’It was when my husband arrived the hospital some hours later that they commenced treatment.
“He (the husband) would have arrived early but he didn’t know the hospital she was transferred to. He located her hours later. It was when he arrived that the nurses gave him the list of drugs they will need for Mama’s treatment and collected some money.
‘’That was when they started the treatment. Some of the drugs were not administered on Mama. Over N20,000 was spent on drugs and none was administered on her.