Furious students of the Osun State Polytechnic on Saturday set the school clinic and medical equipment ablaze over the death of one of their colleagues.
It took the timely intervention of the school’s security officials prevented the fire from spreading to other buildings in the school located in Iree.
A Higher National Diploma student in the Department of Applied Chemistry identified as Aminu Hammed had slumped in the examination hall on Friday and was rushed to the school clinic, where he later died.
The protesting students, who stormed the clinic on Saturday morning, alleged that there were no medical personnel at the clinic to attend to Hammed when he was rushed to the clinic.
During the protest, the school’s ambulance, drugs and equipment in the clinic were set ablaze by the students.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the school, Tope Abiola, said that apart from the burnt clinic, the students also destroyed property worth millions of naira.
Mr Abiola said that drugs, equipment, vehicles as well as medical facilities were burnt in the inferno.
He, however, said it was not true that there were no medical personnel to attend to Hammed when he was brought to the clinic.
Abiola said that when Hammed was rushed to the school clinic at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday, medical personnel on duty made frantic effort to resuscitate him but to no avail.
He said that Hammed was immediately referred to another hospital in the town where he later died.
