The University of Calabar erupted in crisis this morning as students protested the death of their colleague who was allegedly denied medical care for not having the university’s Medical Centre consulting card.

The 300-level student of UNICAL, Agidi, who was identified as Precious Mhenuter was said to have died after almost four hours of arriving at the medical centre without anyone attending to her.

Kristina Reports reliably learnt that the 22-year-old fell ill at her hostel on the morning of Saturday, January 28, 2023 and was rushed to the institution’s medical centre for treatment but was allegedly left unattended to for hours until she eventually gave up the ghost.

This sparked widespread protest on campus as the student community protested the avoidable death of their colleague due to alleged negligence.

An eyewitness, who preferred anonymity, narrated the sequence of events that led to the untimely death of Precious thus: “Precious got sick this morning by 4am and we rushed her to our school’s medical center.”

“We got there by 5am and they asked us go and buy card for N200 but we couldn’t get the card because the people at record weren’t around. So they didn’t attend to her. They left her even as she was in pains.”

“She eventually died at 7am, two hours after we got there. And they took her to the mortuary at about 8am, without even contacting her parents.”

“The unfortunate incident angered students who took to the street to demand justice for their colleague.”

In a chat with Kristina Reports, a 300-level student of the institution, who does not want to be named, lamented that “we have a re-occurrence of where students die because of lack of medical facilities”.

“Sometimes, until you get a medical card they won’t attend to you, and this card is something you pay for in final year when you are leaving whether you used it or not. Today, a malabress died because of N200.”

Efforts by Kristina Reports to get the position of the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Florence Obi was yet unsuccessful as she was yet to respond to messages sent to her mobile line.