Kelechi, who was in her sophomore year at the department of Theatre and Film, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, was said to have collapsed while having her bath yesterday.
Protesting University of Port Harcourt students, on Monday, chased away all the doctors, nurses and all the medical officials at the University of Port Harcourt Traching Hospital and locked up the hospital gate, barring movement in and out of the health facility.
According to reports, the protesting students who came out in their numbers as a show of annoyance over the death of a student, as they complain about the level of neglect that has led to the death of over 20 students in UPTH.
This recent of the death, is that of a female final year student of Theater Art who died on Sunday night in UPTH after doctors and nurses in the hospital allegedly refused to attended to her.
The aggrieved students complained that their students die on daily bases due to carelessness on the side of the doctors and nurses serving in the school owned hospital, and regretted that even after the School Management collect medical fees from students that the school and the hospital still do not care about the health of the students.
One of the leaders of the protest, Judith Oyila who is a final year student of Theatre Art said, “We are angry because we have lost another of our student again in UPTH, a 200 level student of Theatre Art.
"She died because of neglect by the doctors and nurses in that hospital. How could it be that a student slumped and students rushed her to UPTH but the doctors left her for over six hours without treatment and the poor girl died.
"We want the world to hear the injustice that we are facing here even in the hand of the doctors in our institution’s hospital. The doctors abandoned her without treatment.
They gave excuses that do not worth it: saying no bed to keep her, no fuel, no ambulance until she died. The Doctors forgot that we pay for health. We want the government to sanction the school and UPTH for this, as well compel them to do a review of their policies as it concerns students health.”