Late raggae legend Ras
Kimono‘s widow, Efe Okedi, passed on on Sunday just 3 months after her husband
died in Lagos. Her child who is Ras Kimono’s step son, who spoke to The NET
revealed that his mum was rejected by 3 hospitals before she gave up the ghost.
It was also revealed by
family members that the late Ras Kimomo’s wife was never ill.
Onome Akpobome, Ras
Kimono’s stepson (Efe Okedi’s son who she had before marrying Ras Kimono),
explained that her death was as mysterious as anything and that she was fine
before going to bed, adding that the entire family had gone to the beach for an
uncle’s birthday; only for her to complain of chest pains during the night.
“On Saturday, we went to
the beach for my uncle’s birthday. Nothing went wrong until about 2 a.m when
she woke us up to change over because PHCN had brought the light, she then went
upstairs and started complaining of chest pain. At this point, she started
breathing awkwardly…” he said.
She was then rushed to a
hospital in Ogba, a mere ten minutes drive from their Magodo residence but
would eventually give up the ghost without receiving treatment.
He continued,
“Her elder sister who is a
nurse attended to her and gave her first aid but her breathing was still
laboured so we decided to take her to the hospital. First, we went to Blue
Cross Hospital at Ogba but the staff we saw were unresponsive. I was shocked to
see their unconcerned countenance.
When we saw that they were
not ready to help us so we left and drove to County Hospital. A doctor saw her
there, checked her pulse and said she was still breathing but that they had no
facilities to treat her. So he referred us to Lagos University Teaching
Hospital in Ikeja.”
As he sobbed softly, Onome
further narrated that LASUTH was not of help either:
“When we got to Lasuth at
about 4 am, they also wasted our time
for over 40 minutes and by the time they were ready to treat her, she had stopped breathing.”
“The pain is worse for me
because none of the three hospitals treated the case as an emergency. In fact,
I have given up on Nigeria because they all had up to three hours to save my
mum, how can over three hospitals in Lagos not have the right facility to treat
breathing problems?- None of them even had a stretcher, I am just totally done
with this country.”
Onome further explained
that he also lost a family friend last month due to the carelessness of some
doctors.
‘It is even worse for me
because this also happened last month to my friend who lost her sister due to
wrong administration of drugs, how can over three hospitals in Lagos not have
the right facility to treat breathing problems. This says a lot about the
situation of the Health Sector of Nigeria as a country’ he said.
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