The two Nigerian
students at the Donetsk National Technical University in Ukraine who died after
being admitted into a hospital in the country might have been victims of
medical negligence, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Theresa Olaoluwa
Oresanya, who was in her third year studying Electrical Engineering died on
Friday 10 December 2013, and Bede Olunna Ogbu, an Engineering Masters Degree
student died on Wednesday, 18 December 2013.
News of their
death was relayed to the Embassy by the leader of Nigerian student association
in the city, who in turn informed the parents of the students.
Theresa
Oresanya’s father authorized that an autopsy should be carried out on his
daughter’s remains before it is sent to Nigeria for burial.
The father of
Bede Olunna Ogbu refused an autopsy; his son’s corpse was air- freighted to
Nigeria on 29 December 2013 for burial.
Nigerian
authorities have begun an investigation into the deaths.
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