How Lagos Council Boss Rescued, Paid Medical Bill Of Child Crushed By Hit And Run Driver

Moved by compassion, the Chairman of Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State, Princess Surah Animashaun has offset the medical bills of a rescued victim of a hit and run accident abandoned at the Epe General Hospital, Epe, Lagos State.

According to a statement personally signed by her, the council boss said that she received a distressed call about the victim, identified as Emmanuel who was rushed to the Accident and Emergency Ward of the General Hospital Epe, and abandoned unattended to, due to financial constraints.

She said eyewitnesses at the accident scene claimed that a hit-and-run driver knocked the victim, thus flinging the boy walking at the pedestrian road to the ground.

“Indeed, some believe that the child is not mentally stable, but notwithstanding, we need to rescue him first to know his level of illness, they even mentioned that his mother is in Elemore police station, that she will be brought down to the hospital, now, he is being attended to by the doctor, and he is in better and stable condition,” Animashaun said

Animashaun said that the victim sustained varying degrees of injury on head and bleeding through the nose, abandoned at the roadside unconsciously, noting that a policeman brought him to the hospital without paying his medical bills.

One of the eyewitnesses, Tajudeen Adebare, said onlookers had feared that they might get into trouble if they rescue the victims and take them to the hospital without a police report should the victim died.

He said, “Personally I’m impressed by the Chairman’s humanitarian gesture. That is why people who were at the hospital to hail her. She is an example of a good leader. I pray that other leaders will be as caring as this.”

Animashaun had paid for all his medication, including the hospital bills, making sure that they gave the victim an appropriate attention, ordered to bring some drugs from nearby Primary Healthcare Centre to administer to the victim when there were shortage of some drugs.

On her entourages arrival at the Emergency Unit of Hospital, they ensured that the victim was stabilised before they departed the ward. They also paid the medical bills of other victims they met at the hospital.