Photos: Journalist Eunice Egbobawaye Slumps and Die During School’s Re-union Party in Edo

A journalist Eunice Egbobawaye has died during her old school -- St Maria Goretti re-union party in Edo State.

She was said to have danced and rejoiced at the re-union but suddenly slumped and passed on shortly after.

Dr Uyi Usoro gives account of how she passed on. Just too sad!

“She was said to have been dancing in the school hall then slumped on a chair. Was presumed to be tired but when she did not respond, Doctors were alerted and checked her. No peripheral pulses were palpated.

Mis information about her being an asthmatic made the doctors administer pufffs of salbutamol to her via inhaler. When alerted, (smagoga doctors) we met her lying on the ground outside the hall.

We stopped the inhaler, could only palpate the left temporal pulse and continued anti shock management and CPR. Then rushed her to the nearest private medical centre opposite the school but they had no oxygen. Moved her to Central hospital in the hope of getting full complement of resuscitation facilities viz oxygen, defribillator. Upon arrival at central hospital, she was pronounced BID ( brought in dead). No defribillator. We continued administering CPR on the way to UBTH, in expectation of getting a defribillator. Although a team was at reception to receive her, they confirmed no cardiac activity and also confirmed as bid. Her corpse was then transferred to Stella Obasanjo Hospital and Morgue.

Additional history from relative.

She was a known hypertensive, was ill 3months ago, collapsed after an injection administration and was in a coma for one week. Also had severe headaches two weeks ago and lapsed into unconsciousness for 24hours. Her attending Doctor had advised her to do some comprehensive check up and investigations which she postponed. She had severe headache prior to the opening ceremony of the 60th school anniversary.

Diagnosis: Tentative cause of death is Cardiorespiratory arrest secondary to hemorrhagic stroke/ ruptured aneurysm.

Lessons learnt *Regular medical check ups. *Don’t ignore warning signs, subsequent attacks of  strokes almost always fatal. *Proper ventilation while decorating the hall. *Ambulance for every AGM ceremony. *CPR training. *Medical outreach should not be combined with other activities. *Also food and drinks should be available to avoid hypoglycemic attacks. Please let us do check”