LUTH Fire Outbreak: No Casualty Reported

Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Management on Friday assured its patients, relations and the general public that there was no casualty recorded in the fire outbreak on Thursday night at a bungalow used for APIN Outpatient clinic.
The institution, in a statement made available to Saturday Mirror yesterday by its Head of Corporate Services Division, Hope Nwawolo, however regretted the incident. The statement reads: “Management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital regrets to state that on August 30, 2012 at about 7.00pm a bungalow used for the APIN Outpatient clinic caught fire.

“However, the Lagos State Fire Services and others were able to contain the fire to that building alone.
Therefore management wishes to state categorically that the children wards and emergency centre were not affected by the fire.

“Management hereby assures its patients, relations and the general public that there was no casualty recorded in the inferno.
“Management has also put in place measures to ensure that our patients’ clinical treatment and access to their drugs are not affected.
Data of patients are also backed up electronically and so there is no need for alarm.”