FAAN Reacts As Passenger Slumps, Dies At Abuja Airport

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

Officials at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN on Thursday stated that the traveller had health challenge before she passed at the Abuja Airport.

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However, other passengers at the terminal when the incident happened on Wednesday knocked FAAN for delaying to send doctors on time to attend to the passenger before she died.

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.

The post read in part, “For 13 minutes, no FAAN medical personnel. She died in my hands and few others. A medical doctor on his way to Kano tried but as he finally said, ‘we lost her.’

“But she would’ve been saved, had FAAN provided basic insulin. She was diabetic. Her sugar went high; she entered 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!

“FAAN and the entire airline staff on ground were stupidly acting as if è no concern them. They kept announcing boarding and never used their speaker to ask if there is any medical personnel on ground. Finally they brought an ambulance from their fire fighting department, to take her corpse away!”

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