Female passenger slumps, dies at the Nnamdi Azikwe airport, Abuja

A female passenger on her way to Lagos from Abuja slumped and died at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

 The Officials at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, stated yesterday that the traveller had a health challenge before she passed on, but the passengers at the terminal when the incident happened on Wednesday, blame FAAN for delaying to send doctors to treat the patient on time before she gave up the ghost.

Also a social media post from someone, who witnessed the incident, Felix Ashimole, accused FAAN of not sending medical attention when it was needed most by the passenger.

“But she would’ve been saved, had FAAN provided basic insulin. She was diabetic. Her sugar went high; she entered a coma; no medical attention; she saw the light and moved towards it. We kept calling her, Mama Tobi, Mama Tobi, don’t leave us, wake up, Good morning but saliva trickled down, foams bubbled and I knew she had seen a better place and wouldn’t be coming back.

While a non FAAN medical doctor on his way to Kano said she died in his hands and few others after he had tried to save her.

“FAAN and the entire airline staff on the ground were stupidly acting as if they don't care. They kept announcing boarding and never used their speaker to ask if there is any medical personnel on the ground. 

Finally, they brought an ambulance from their fire fighting department to take her corpse away.”

When contacted, the acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, Voke Ivbaze, confirmed the development to our correspondent but argued that the authority intervened as fast as it could.

She said: “FAAN regrets that this kind of thing happened. But she was a passenger that already had a health condition and anything could just happen to anybody at anytime.