UPDATE: LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT TO PROBE NURSES WHO FILMED RICO SWAVEY’S LAST MOMENTS
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
Public outrage has been generated by a 30-second video clip of Patrick Fakoya, alias Rico Swavey, a former reality TV star, in his last moments at a hospital in Lagos State.
The deceased Rico Swavey was put on oxygen while he was unconscious on a chair in the film that was taken by one of the nurses caring for him.
When the nurse pulled out a phone and began recording him, it was seen that the nurses were attempting to transport him on a bed.
A different nurse could be heard advising her colleague not to do it.
“You people should stop making the video; somebody is dying, you people are making video,” the nurse said.
Reacting to the video, a marketing strategist, Samuel Atigba, condemned the action of the nurses.
Using his verified Twitter handle, @SamuelOtigba, he wrote, “Anytime I watch that video of the nurses joking, laughing and making needless videos of Rico for social media instead of giving him the necessary urgent attention needed to save his life, my heart breaks over again cause he could have survived. RIP Rico.”
A director, Egai Eti, wrote, “This hospital should be closed and the license of those nurses should be seized.”
Earlier, it was reported that Rico had been involved in a car crash on Tuesday.
Doctors were attempting to revive him, according to a fellow Big Brother Naija Season 3 ex-housemate, Alex Asogwa, who posted the news on her Twitter page on Tuesday.
Unfortunately, Rico Swavey passed away on Thursday from his wounds.
Gbenga Omotoso, the state’s commissioner for information and strategy, announced that an investigation had been launched by the state government.
He said, “That hospital is not a government hospital; we have started an investigation into the unprofessional conducts of those who appeared in that video.”
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