Cross River Varsity Takes Over Treatment Of Students Involved In Road Crash

Vice chancellor of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), Prof. Francisca Bassey, has taken implicit the attraction of Godsblessing Omachifu, a pupil of the school, who was knocked down by a conveyance adjacent the Okuku Campus Gate successful the Ogoja section authorities country of the state.

The schoolhouse authorities extended the motion to 2 of the victim’s colleagues affected by the roadworthy accident.

The VC made the committedness yesterday successful Calabar erstwhile she visited the injured pupil astatine the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH).

The accident, which occurred connected Wednesday night, inflicted injuries connected Godsblessing Omachifu (Agronomy), Adigor Philomina (Human Physiology) and Success Akomaye (Medical Biochemistry).

After being briefed astir the incidental by Dr. Ujong Peter, Dean of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Prof. Bassey rushed to the Catholic Maternity Hospital successful Ogoja, wherever the students were receiving treatment.

He directed that they acquisition contiguous thorax and caput scans and beryllium transferred to UCTH for specialised care, wherever the victims are presently undergoing treatment.

The assemblage head besides liaised with the main aesculapian manager of UCTH, Prof. Ikpeme A. Ikpeme, and Dr. Innocent Abang, president of the Medical Advisory Committee, to guarantee the students received punctual attention.

The students were aboriginal transported to Calabar for further treatment.

In a singular show of compassion, Prof. Bassey pledged that the UNICROSS would screen the students’ aesculapian expenses and connection enactment to rebuild a store destroyed successful the accident, which belonged to 1 of the victims. The mishap reportedly occurred erstwhile a speeding driver, allegedly nether the influence, rammed into the students astir 8 p.m.