Surviving Associated Flight Hostess's 10 Feet, 5 Fingers To Be Amputated!!

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Unless a miracle happens, or the Federal Government urgently intervenes to fly Mrs Queeneth Owolabi abroad for treatment, she'd have her toes and fingers amputated due to gangrene infection.

Mrs Owolabi is a surviving cabin crew on the ill-fated Associated Airlines plane that crashed in Lagos fourteen days ago.

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But for her husband's resistance, the amputation could have been done yesterday or today at Nigerian Air Force, NAF, base hospital in Ikeja, where she have been hospitalised since the crash.

Mrs. Owolabi survived the crash alongside six others, although two of the survivors later died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH.

Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that the husband of the victim was making frantic efforts to attain the Federal Government for his wife to be flown abroad for treatment to stave off the amputation, especially as the  government was thought to be responsible for her treatment thus far.

Efforts to attain him proved futile as his cell phones remained turned off yesterday and it was also not possible to talk to the medical team at the hospital as movements in the victim's ward was restricted by military personnel.

National President of Nigerian Airlines Cabin Crew Association, NACCA, Mr. Charles Onuoha, who confirmed the development, appealed to the Federal Government to urgently come to the rescue of the crash victim.

Based on him, Owolabi's 10 toes and the five fingers of the left hand have been marked for amputation due to the infection that had set in.
He explained:

“We are calling for referral for overseas treatment, a post-trauma stress assessment and de-briefing for Mrs Quinneth Owolabi, and her colleague, Miss Toyin Samson, currently on admission at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Lagos.

 “We are appealing for government's intervention because that's the thing that could stop this amputation.”

Onuoha also known as the Federal Government to beam its searchlight on the regulation of the aviation sector to avoid the frequent crashes and deaths of cabin crew that had trailed within the last 10 years.

Onuoha said though Toyin Samson's case have been stabilised at LASUTH, she needed further medical attention overseas. He noted that post-trauma stress assessment and de-briefing were a necessity for crash and hijack victims, and lamented the attitude of the management of Associated Airlines to the plight of the two cabin crew since the crash.