It is a case of double trouble for some victims of the collapsed Synagogue Church building as there was no one to receive them on being discharged from the hospital where they were receiving treatment.
Consultant and Head, Surgical Emergency Department at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) Dr Ibrahim Mustapha made the situation known on Monday, after he said that a minor was fit to be discharged but there was no parent or guardian to receive her.
“One of the victims, a child, is due to be discharged today, but we cannot find her parents,” Mustapha said. “We intend to take her photograph to make the announcement and hopefully, she will be found by her parents.’’
He mentioned that there was another victim whose injuries have been duly taken care of but has no one to neither take care of him after being discharged nor anyone to identify him.
The second victim, a middle-aged man, refused to disclose his identity, saying instead that he was grateful for surviving the collapsed building.
The man who confirmed that he was responding to treatment explained that he was in the church building when it collapsed.
On Friday, a six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Ikotun, Lagos, had collapsed, killing more than 50 persons.
According to residents of the area the building, which was under construction when it collapsed, was initially a two-storey building before four new floors were added.
As at Sunday, South-West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Mr Ibrahim Farinloye had put the death toll at the collapsed building at 40.
More than 124 people were rescued alive from rubbles of the collapsed building, which served as a guest house for foreign worshippers at the church.
