The Osun State University has commenced investigation into the situations that led to the death of it’s 400-level students of the institution, Osunlakin Grace,
The school management, which also stated that it is also facilitating major health reforms of healthcare services across it’s campuses, following a held meeting with the National Association of Nigerian Student (NANS) Southwest Zone D, set up a committee on both targets, in a resolution were contained in a statement by NANS Southwest Coordinator, Adeyemo Josiah.
Josiah, on Tuesday, said that the decisions were taken during a meeting between the university management led by Vice-Chancellor, Odunayo Adeboye, and the NANS Southwest leadership which focused on Osunlakin’s death and other student welfare issues.
Speaking at the meeting, Adeyemo said “The welfare, safety, and well-being of students across the Southwest remain the foremost priority of the NANS Southwest leadership.
“We would continue to engage management constructively, but would not be silent where students’ welfare was being neglected.
The Vice Chancellor described the student’s death as a painful loss to the university community and announced plans to establish a new health centre at the Ifetedo Campus, where the deceased was studying, and to strengthen medical facilities on other campuses.
He further disclosed that all university medical centres would now run 24 hours daily to guarantee uninterrupted student access to care and would be fitted with solar-powered electricity to tackle power challenges, while ambulances would be made available for emergencies.
Adeboye hinted that qualified doctors and nurses would be recruited and posted to the university’s health facilities to improve service delivery, also calling on students and parents to declare known medical conditions, noting that undisclosed health issues had made emergency response difficult in some cases.
The Students’Union President, Oremokun Shedrack, presented the students’demands during the engagement, which include the relocation of the Health Centre at the Ifetedo Campus, review and rehabilitation of all health centres across the university, twenty-four-hour operation of all medical facilities, recruitment and employment of qualified healthcare professionals, review of TISHIP and HMO code generation processes, and immediate reopening of the Welfare Director’s portal.
The students also sought repair and maintenance of the university ambulance, provision of essential medical equipment, including a Nebulizer machine, and an appeal to the Osun State Government for improved healthcare facilities around the university communities.