Twenty-five students and two
teachers of Ogba Junior
Grammar School in Ogba,
Lagos State, southwest Nigeria,
were yesterday evening rushed
to a hospital after they inhaled
emission from a toxic chemical.
It was gathered that the
unconscious students and
teachers were immediately
rushed to Blue Cross Hospital,
located opposite the shopping
mall for urgent medical
attention.
A medical doctor at the
hospital declined to comment
on the condition of the students
and teachers. Two of the
affected female students whose
condition was critical were
transferred in a Lagos State
Emergency Ambulance marked
LA 156 A08 to the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital,
LASUTH, in Ikeja.
P.M.NEWS learnt that at about
12 noon, the students and
teachers were in the school
when they began to feel dizzy
and collapsed after inhaling the
emission from chemical spread
to their school premises by air.
Following the incident, some of
the teachers raised an alarm
which attracted some members
of the public, who immediately
called officials of the Lagos
State Emergency Management
Agency on their toll free lines.
One of the officials of LASEMA
told P.M.NEWS that the gas
emission was traced to
Bizcircuit Colour Laboratory,
located within the premises of
Ogba Shopping Mall just at the
back of the school. According
to the official, the chemical in
the lab may have expired.
Speaking on the incident, Femi
Giwa, Head of Logistics for
LASEMA said that it was not an
explosive as some members of
the public were saying, but an
emission, which was
immediately traced to the lab,
after carrying out an emergency
assessment of the entire place.
Security agents comprising the
police, NSCDC officials, and
LASEMA officials cordoned off
the entire area to prevent
people from gaining access to
the school and the shopping
mall.
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