Dr. Femi Rotiifah, a young resident doctor at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, RSUTH,, has collapsed and died after being on duty for 72-hours non-stop.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that Rotifa was on duty for 72 hours in the Emergency Room before retreating to the call room to rest where he slumped and died.
According to reports, effort to resuscitate him failed as he was confirmed dead by his colleagues.
The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Dr. Tope Osundara confirmed the sad incident, saying: “What happened is that he was on call in the Emergency Room. Afterward, he went to the call room to rest, and it was there that he died. Unfortunately, he was the only one attending to the patient. The overuse of manpower strained his health and led to this painful death. It was a death on duty.”
The deceased was a former President of the Port Harcourt University Medical Students’ Association (PUMSA) and was registered with the UK’s General Medical Council, awaiting placement abroad.
Meanwhile his friend and fellow medical doctors have taken to social media to mourn him.