Niger State Government says it has set up a committee to probe the circumstances that led to the death of former commissioner for information, Danladi Ndayebo, at the IBB Specialist Hospital.
Secretary to the Government of Niger State Ahmed Matane announced this at a news conference in Minna.
Ndayebo, a former commissioner of information during Babangida Aliyu administration, died on November 7 following an a motor accident along Minna-Suleja road.
Matane said that the state government received information of some level of alleged non-professionalism in the management of the deceased by IBB Specialist Hospital Minna.
He said that it was alleged that the deceased was brought to IBB Specialist Hospital Minna with no single doctor on call in the hospital to attend to him.
“I received a call that morning to be informed that late Ndayebo and one other patient were taken to IBB Specialist Hospital in the night, unfortunately in the morning when I was called, there was no single doctor to attend to them as victims of accident.
“When he was finally being attended to, he took his last breath some hours later. As government, we are very concerned about public government hospitals that would respond to such emergency with level of levity and neglect.
“But will not conclude whether the circumstance leading to his death was as result of negligence, the committee is to go into what has happened to see how such situation can be dealt it with to avoid such unfortunate act in the future,” he said.
Matane said the committee was to find out the circumstances that led to the death of Ndayebo and established whether or not there was any act of negligence on the part of IBB Specialist Hospital or its personnel.
He added that the committee was to review the operations of IBB Specialist Hospital to identify any operational deficiencies and make appropriate recommendations within one to enable the government to take decisive actions.
Matane said that the committee is made up of Dr Chindo Sallah, Dr Joseph Kolo, and Dr Umaru Tiffin, representative of the state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) among others.
