{"id":4668,"date":"2023-11-30T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/panic-over-reported-fire-emergency-at-uniosun-teaching-hospital-osogbo\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:02:40","slug":"panic-over-reported-fire-emergency-at-uniosun-teaching-hospital-osogbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/panic-over-reported-fire-emergency-at-uniosun-teaching-hospital-osogbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic over reported fire emergency at UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A reported fire emergency at the new Accident and Emergency, A&amp;E Unit of the Osun State University Teaching Hospital caused panic among patients and staff on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A source who sought anonymity stated that patients were seen running out of the unit during the fire.<\/p>\n<p>In his words, \u201cI can confirm to you that there is a fire emergency at the new Accident and Emergency unit of UNIOSUNTH this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could see patients scampering for safety and running out of the A&amp;E Unit to avoid the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know how the fire started but suddenly, we saw patients running for safety with blood and bandages on their body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the Chief Medical Director, CMD of the hospital, Prof Peter Olaitan debunked the reports of a fire outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Olaitan in a reply to a message by DAILY POST revealed that it was a circuit breaker that exploded.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the patients are well and the UTH engineers are already working to fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not true. There was a circuit breaker that exploded and that was all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patients are ok and in the ward. Our engineers are already working to fix it immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panic over reported fire emergency at UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osogbo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reported fire emergency at the new Accident and Emergency, A&amp;E Unit of the Osun State University Teaching Hospital caused&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5773,5774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-osogbo","category-uniosun-teaching-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}