This call came during a stakeholders’ symposium marking World Trauma Day 2025, where the Commissioner represented by Dr. Olawale Adegbite highlighted the disturbing trend of bystanders obstructing emergency operations with their phones....
Speaking at a stakeholders’ symposium in Lagos to mark the 2025 World Trauma Day, Abayomi, represented by the Director of Medical Services, Dr Olawale Adegbite, lamented that “onlookers often obstruct emergency operations with their phones while lives are slipping away.”
“Every time we block an ambulance or ignore an emergency call, someone’s parent, spouse, or child could be dying. Trauma care begins with public responsibility,” he said.
Abayomi urged Lagosians to respect ambulances and prioritise life-saving interventions over videos.
He stressed that trauma care was not solely the government’s duty but a “collective moral and civic responsibility.”
Honestly this have so gone out of hand, especially in this Lagos.. as an onlooker, saving lives should be the first thing to do but instead they will bring out their phones and start recording…humanity is gone
ReplyDeleteIt’s a crazy, nasty piece of work
It's called the bystander effect
DeletePeople have lost empathy because of likes and comments.Everybody now turn emergency journalists at every accident scene instead of helping out.May God help us.
ReplyDeleteMr commissioner mandate hospitals to receive and treat emergency patients first before asking for card or deposit money. And at least give first aid before referring to better clinic for treatment. No be this one wey you dey talk now be the real problem here
ReplyDeleteThis too
DeleteAnother important issue
DeleteVery important
DeleteThank you for highlighting this....
DeleteHmmmm. It won't stop anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, the directive should go to police and hospitals, accident victims shouldn't be treated as criminals, hospitals try to avoid police issue.
ReplyDeleteWhy is a big city like Lagos and Abuja not having active rescue units people can call when they see things like this?
The quest for likes, follow and comments has eroded empathy from our society.
Felicity
Can we be humans first? Gone are the days when people quickly help to save lives.
ReplyDeleteNow if they don't steal victim's phone or money, they video scene for tiktok and facebook 😞
Can we be humans first? Gone are the days when people quickly help to save lives.
ReplyDeleteNow if they don't steal victim's phone or money, they video scene for tiktok and facebook 😞
They won't hear. That's how my mum died... Dem dey video who slump 🥺
ReplyDeleteOh Dear 🫂
DeleteImagine the wickedness.
DeleteSo sorry Fidel 🤗
Will these people hear ?
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