Key highlights
- The total number of passengers discharged from the hospital following the Lagos train collision has now risen to 77.
- In the meantime, 19 patients involved in the train-bus collision are still receiving treatment at three state public health facilities.
- There are 16 patients at LASUTH, two at General Hospital Odan-Lagos and one at General Hospital, Gbagada.
The Lagos state government said that the total number of passengers discharged from the hospital following the Lagos train collision has now risen to 77.
This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, in a situation update about the accident seen by Nairametrics.
He further explained that 19 patients involved in the train-bus collision accident are currently receiving treatment at three state public health facilities.
More on the discharged passengers
Abayomi said that 10 were discharged from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and one from General Hospital, Gbagada.
- “Total number of patients on admission as of today, March 22 are 19. There are 16 patients at LASUTH, two at General Hospital Odan-Lagos and one at General Hospital, Gbagada. Total number of passengers discharged as of today is 77,” he said.
He added the fatality figure from the accident remains six which include two at the site of accident and four at LASUTH during resuscitation, after a Lagos State Government staff bus carrying 85 passengers, mostly civil servants from Isolo to Alausa had a collision with a train at PWD Bus-stop, along Agege Motor Road.
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Last week, The number of discharged passengers from the Train- bus collision accident in Lagos rose to 66, with 30 still in admission.
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi on Wednesday in Lagos added that no other fatality was recorded among the survivors of the accident.
- “Total number of patients on admission as of today, 15th of March, 30. There are 26 patients at LASUTH, two at General Hospital, Odan-Lagos and another two at General Hospital, Gbagada. A total number of passengers discharged as of today is 66.”
The Commissioner also added that the fatality figure from the accident remains six persons including two at the site of the accident and four at LASUTH during resuscitation.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) revealed earlier that it commenced the construction of underground pass and overhead bridges at the 11-level crossings across Lagos State to avoid accidents.
Managing Director of NRC, Mr Fidet Okhiria, said that the corporation had started the separation of the road from the rail in Oyingbo and Ebute-Metta.
11 flyovers at level crossings are expected in Lagos
The NRC boss said, “We will have 11 flyovers within Lagos and we cannot do them all simultaneously. We are constructing them in batches.
- “Before now, we constructed barriers and they were vandalised; we even built automatic barriers which were also vandalised.
- “Although we have been repairing them, especially the automatic barriers, they do not last for a week after such repairs. It is either they hit the barriers with vehicles or people vandalise them overnight.’’
NRC to deploy technology to alert road users
Okhiria said that NRC management had planned to get gatemen to stop vehicles and avoid accidents while passing through the level crossings.
He said that NRC would deploy men and technology to alert road users whenever trains approached the level crossings.
Okhiria, who noted that people obeyed simple traffic regulations worldwide, accused Nigerian motorists of usually violating traffic signs.