Video of nurses recording now late Nigerian reality star, Rico Swavey has sparked online outrage.
Nigerians have berated the medical practitioners for being negligent and failing to express empathy towards the reality star who was unconscious during the time of the recording.
It would be recalled that the reality star died on Thursday, October 13.
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The reality star was involved in a ghastly motor accident on Tuesday, October 11.
As at the time of this publication, Nigerians have called out the medical practitioners for failing to do the needful and only making light of the heinous situation.
Specifically, the nurses were seen laughing and gesticulating instead of attending to Swavey.
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Watch the video below.
From this video it was negligence and unprofessionalism from the nurses that cause the death of Rico Swavey. This hospital should be closed and the license of those nurses should be seized… pic.twitter.com/lJAfJkXDgd
— Egai Eto (@egai_eto) October 13, 2022
Following the triggering video, social media users have shared their harrowing experience with government run hospitals.
Read comments below.
https://twitter.com/the_rebeccah/status/1580610827173797888?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
Rico would have survived if the doctors had done their work. I don't blame nurses mostly I blame the doctors.
The first picture is my wife when she just had an accident and the second picture is 8 hours after she had the accident. When they brought her the nurses dumped her & pic.twitter.com/2ou7KJbY0T— virginbra (@VirginbraZ5) October 13, 2022
Luth coming under fire over Rico Swavey death saga…
Those nurses though , Rico Swavey could have survived pic.twitter.com/xlBMg0OT5X— Chris (@chrisstilldey) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/BusayoOtebata/status/1580582959228125185?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
So you mean the nurses made the video and circulated it themselves?
WowBut everyone missed the part where one of the women standing kept shouting at everyone, telling the person making the video to stop and assist them to put him on the bed?
Alright
— atunke68’s founder (@ronkeomomummy) October 13, 2022
What happened to Rico at LUTH is not new. An accident happened at Ilesa, Osun state, the victim was brought to OAUTHEC (Obafemi Awolowo Teaching Hospital), almost lifeless, the Nursing school Nurses were busy making jest of the elderly man's pain expression… Laughing loudly fah
— Mandela_Of_Nigeria🇳🇬 (@olalekanmandela) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/Tee_Classiquem1/status/1580640808575041539?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
when our nurses are now tiktokers,dancing on duty…rip RICO😪LUTH
— Niphy D' Starlyon 🇳🇬🐎🇳🇬 (@nniphhy) October 13, 2022
You enter hospital, see people wey wear scubs, sake of say them be ladies, you say them be nurses
These same person come do you shege, you come SM say na nurse.
Ekene.., NO BE EVERYBODY WEY WEAR SCRUB FOR HOSPITAL OR ANYWHERE BE NURSE OOOOOOO!!
Hian#RipSwavey— BossPlayer (@Mazi_Nonye) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/Kingkuti_/status/1580617741920534529?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
https://twitter.com/Champagnediet1/status/1580582876697210881?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
Nigeria health care failed Rico. Imagine nurses fighting over who will carry him? He should never have been placed on a freaking chair at the first place. They could see he had internal bleeding. … God, They even looked confused. Failed country indeed😓. #RipSwavey 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
— 🤍OBEHI𓃵🖤🧚 (@LOVEABL20817973) October 13, 2022
At least watch the video before dragging nurses please. Every trained nurse knows you should never violate a patient’s privacy in an emergency
— Princess O (@onyebebe) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/The_Mayaki/status/1580608756559515648?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
General Hospital, LUTH AND LASUTH.
The Doctors and Nurses in these Hospitals aren’t Humans, you can’t tell me anything else.
May God continue to grant us good health and not have to experience these hospitals.🙏🏾
— Ibukun Aluko (@IbkSports) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/PoojaMedia/status/1580609919572922368?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
https://twitter.com/GbemmyG/status/1580610698253455361?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
https://twitter.com/AyeeshaLiq/status/1580581876451880960?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
The problem with government-owned hospitals like LUTH is the way the nurses and medical attendants treat patients with levity, disgust and condescension. If you rush someone having a health emergency to LUTH, once they start asking irrelevant questions take the person out fast.
— Sir David Onyemaizu (@SirDavidBent) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/SamuelOtigba/status/1580618698079244289?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
When there’s an accident the first thing to do is not recording the victims for whatsoever purpose. Rescue and try to save lives.
You also clearly must not record a patient in hospital while they are unconscious.
I hope those Nurses are punished and the hospital sued.
— Dr Dípò Awójídé, FHEA (@OgbeniDipo) October 13, 2022
The same nurses in that video will go to the UK and act right, you know why? A functional system, where there are consequences for action and/or inaction. A system serves to set a standard and ensure that said standard is adhered to at ALL times, irrespective of who…
— Bros Iwi (@TooSiQ) October 13, 2022
https://twitter.com/AfroVII/status/1580586430245785600?s=20&t=hlSaR1Ir_79rXczcjloPwQ
Patrick Fakoya, who is better known as Rico Swavey died on Thursday after suffering fatal injuries sustained from a car crash. The reality star was reportedly unresponsive prior to demise which was announced by Big Brother Naija star Tobi Bakre.
This is not the first time a celebrity’s death would be attributed to the negligence of health workers and a failed healthcare system in Nigeria.
Swavey gained mainstream prominence when he participated in the 2018 Big Brother Naija Double Wahala edition. He is a musician and a movie actor, prior to becoming a reality star, he was on the television series, Life 101.
