Twenty-one more survivors of last Thursday’s train-bus collision in Lagos have been discharged.
Their discharge yesterday brings to 53, the total number of injured civil servants being conveyed in the bus to their office when the crash happened at Sogunle.
Forty-three other injured passengers of the bus are still on admission at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, General Hospital Odan-Lagos and General Hospital, Gbagada.
A National Youth Corps (NYSC) member, Oreoluwa Aina, who was one of the six that died in the accident, has been buried.
The Nation also gathered that the driver of the bus, Okwuwaseun Osinbajo, was hospitalised at the weekend. Health Commissioner Akin Abayomi, who gave the number of newly discharged persons in an update on the accident, said “ Total number of patients on admission as of today March 12, is 43.
“There are 39 patients at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), two at the General Hospital Odan-Lagos and another two at the General Hospital, Gbagada.
“The total number of patients or passengers discharged is 53.”
Abayomi added that the fatality figure from the accident remains at six.
The bus driver was said to have been rushed to a public hospital in Oyingbo after allegedly passing out in custody.
A source said he suffered internal bleeding on the day of the accident, which was not discovered until he was taken to the hospital.
The source said: “He suffered internal bleeding from the accident but did not know. He was rushed to the hospital where he underwent surgery on Saturday.
“He was at the Post Surgery Ward between Saturday and Sunday morning but has now been moved to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).”
Before her death, 28-year-old Aina was posted by the NYSC to the Curriculum Services Department of the state’s Ministry of Education in Alausa for her primary assignment.
Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, Coordinator of the NYSC in the state, Yetunde Baderinwa and the bereaved family members were at Aina’s burial at Atan Cemetry.
