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Founder & Editor @MinorityAfrica | Journalist | Words: @AJEnglish @BBC @CNN @Guardian @NPR | Innovator @AKUMediaFutures | ex Correspondent @Heidi_News
Oct 14, 2019 9 tweets 4 min read
Barely 4 weeks after this photo was taken, Oranye Ruth was hit by a car where she was waiting to cross in Lekki phase 2. Ruth although sustaining major head injuries was still alive and was carried to a nearby private hospital which turned her away demanding a police report. 1/8 By the time the group arrived at the government hospital which was a distance away in Epe, Ruth had given up the ghost. She was just 27. This practice of demanding for a police report before treating victims has no backing in the law, but why do hospitals still do it? 2/8