Plateau collapsed school building Agency No fewer than 81 victims of the Saints Academy school, which collapsed in Jos, Plateau State have been discharged from the various hospitals where they were admitted. The ill-fated school, which comprised a secondary and primary section, collapsed on Friday, while students were writing their third term examination. The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of Plateau Specialist Hospital, Dr Abel Izang, Hospital, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, on Saturday in Jos.
He said out of the 39 patients hospitalised on Friday, 23 had been discharged, while two were referred to the Jos University Teaching Hospital, due to spinal cord injuries. Izang, however, said five patients still on admission were in stable condition. Also, the Chief Medical Director of Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Professor Steve Anzaku, said out of the 55 hospitalised in the facility, 23 were discharged and those on admission were in stable condition.
The Public Relations Officer of Our Lady of Apostles Hospital, Mrs Chioma Ofodille, said 23 out of the 32 patients brought to the facility had been discharged, while the remaining nine were in stable condition. Similarly, the Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee of the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Dr Josiah Njem, told NAN that the six victims of the collapsed building, brought in with various injuries were in stable condition. NAN reports that no further casualty had been recorded from the four hospitals that treated the victims.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Musa Ashoms, on Friday confirmed that 154 people were brought out of the debris of the collapsed building, 22 were confirmed dead, and six were in critical condition. NAN Tags Bingham University Teaching Hospital Jos University Teaching Hospital Our Lady of Apostles Hospital Plateau collapsed school building Plateau Specialist Hospital Saints Academy school.
