Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - A young resident doctor at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, RSUTH, Dr. Femi Rotiifah, has slumped and d!ed after being on duty for 72-hours non-stop.
According to reports, Rotifa had been on continuous call
duty for three days in the Emergency Room before retreating to the call room to
rest where he slumped and di!Ed. Efforts to resuscitate him failed as he was
confirmed de@d by his colleagues.
Confirming the incident, the President of the Nigerian
Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Dr. Tope Osundara, said
“What
happened is that he was on call in the Emergency Room. Afterward, he went to
the call room to rest, and it was there that he died. Unfortunately, he was the
only one attending to the patient. The overuse of manpower strained his health
and led to this painful death. It was a death on duty,” Osundara lamented
The deceased was a former President of the Port Harcourt
University Medical Students’ Association (PUMSA) and was registered with the
UK’s General Medical Council, awaiting placement abroad.
Meanwhile his friend and fellow medical doctors have taken
to social media to mourn him.
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