Department of State Services
2 injured in Edo over DSS and security guards fight. Crisis erupted at the Edo Specialist Hospital in Benin on Monday as personnel of the Department of State Services clashed with private guards and men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.
The clash reportedly resulted from an alleged unprofessional response by medical personnel when the DSS officials brought in one of their men who slumped while in a meeting in their office.
It took the intervention of the police, who were called from the Oba Market Police Station, and the Chief Security Officer, Government House before calm was restored.
At the end of the pandemonium, some people, including private security guards and female personnel of the NSCDC were injured.
The clash reportedly resulted from an alleged unprofessional response by medical personnel when the DSS officials brought in one of their men who slumped while in a meeting in their office.
It took the intervention of the police, who were called from the Oba Market Police Station, and the Chief Security Officer, Government House before calm was restored.
At the end of the pandemonium, some people, including private security guards and female personnel of the NSCDC were injured.
“We were in a meeting when the person we brought to the hospital slumped, and he was rushed to our health facility to check his pulse,” a DSS official said. We then took him to the Edo Specialist Hospital, which is the nearest to our workplace, but we received horrible service.
“It was our people who had to help our colleague get out of the vehicle.” When you go to the hospital, civility requires you to bring the patient down and care to him or her; at the very least, demonstrate dedication, but they stated they couldn’t carry him and we had to carry him down ourselves.”
But when contacted, the hospital’s Medical Director, Dr David Odiko, said the patient was promptly attended to by the doctor on duty, who confirmed him dead, but that the DSS personnel refused to accept it,2 injured
The clash reportedly resulted from an alleged unprofessional response by medical personnel when the DSS officials brought in one of their men who slumped while in a meeting in their office.
It took the intervention of the police, who were called from the Oba Market Police Station, and the Chief Security Officer, Government House before calm was restored.
At the end of the pandemonium, some people, including private security guards and female personnel of the NSCDC were injured.
“I was not in the hospital when the incident occurred because I was in court for a case,” he explained. They contacted me from there, and when I arrived to the hospital, they had already left, but I met police officers on the ground.
“They brought him in as an emergency.” He was alleged to have slumped, and when the doctor on duty went to check on him, he stated he encountered the patient laying on the seat of the automobile and that he wasn’t breathing.
“He couldn’t see the chest or abdomen moving, so he checked to see if there was still a pulse and heartbeat, both of which were absent.” He stated that he continued to perform CPR, but there was no response.
“The doctor said he was brought in dead, and they said they weren’t going to take that, so they moved him into our facility and dropped him on the floor.” Another group of workers, I was told, damaged the Civil Defence personnel on duty on her head.”