Addis Ababa University students expressed outrage and anger on Tuesday after doctors at Menelik II hospital allegedly took out some parts from the body of a student. Daily Monitor reports as follows:
The deceased Ahmed Abdurrahman, a 3rd year physics student from Harar, fainted in class while he was doing a presentation, before he died later.
One of his class mates told The Daily Monitor on conditions of anonymity that, after he died , Ahmed’s body was taken to the hospital for autopsy and the doctors there [b]”took his brain, his eyes and his kidneys.” [/b]”The students demanded that was outrageous, that it was inhuman, and that they wanted those who did this to be brought to justice,” the student said.
According to the same source, the University’s student community went to the University President’s office the same day to demand that those responsible for the inhuman act on their colleague be named and brought to justice.
The students also demanded a guarantee to be given to them that this would not happen again.
One student said he wondered if the same thing happened to the student who died in a shower room two weeks ago, the source said.
Responding to the students’ plea, Professor Andreas Eshete, the University’s President said, the doctors didn’t have any right that allows them to do what they did on the student’s body.
Only his parents had the right to decide on their child’s body, Andreas told the students adding he heard reports that the doctors had permission from the police,according to the source.
Professor Andreas Said, some food had been sent for examination.
The students have decided to cut classes and not to go to their cafés for a few days.
The source said that from the University President’s office, after they with screams and shouting slogans: “You have to replace his body parts!”; “We don’t want to bury his skin!” and “We want our rights to be respected!
The students marched down to Arat Kilo intending to submit their complaints to the Prime Minister’s Office.
But then, they though to have a film off the body, believing that could serve a strong evidence to file a lawsuit against the “evil acts” on the part of the Medical Doctors at the Menilik Hospital.
In a meeting they held there afterwards, they elected representatives to film the corpse with Dr. Araya, the source said was a lecturer who shared the students’ anger over the incidence.
Meanwhile about 90 students of the Sidist Killo Main campus have been admitted to the Black Lion hospital as a result of a supposed food poisoning, another student who also did not want to be named told The Daily Monitor.
He said some students assert that the major symptom was “acute diarrhea”.