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The Lagos Coroner heard yesterday that the late Sylvester Oromoni Junior was not injured while playing football.
Rather, the deceased was said to have developed muscle pull when he wanted to pick his bible that fell from the bed.
A house parent of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Nurse Omobola Kayode stated this while giving evidence before the coroner, Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri set up to unravel the cause of death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni jnr.
Omobola who refuted claims that the deceased got injury while playing football, said she massaged the boy’s right thigh twice following his complaint on the instruction of the school doctor.
The nurse who obtained a BSc in Nursing in Ukraine said: “After massaging the deceased’s right thigh with deep heat, I administered paracetamol. So he slept in the sick bay before he went back to his room. He had attended class in the morning.”
She said she did a follow-up on him at the hostel and stayed in the female hostel.
“I went to the hostel to tell the house master after the second time I rubbed his thigh with deep heat,” she said.
The witness said there was improvement after the massage and he went back to the hostel unassisted.
“The first time I applied the deep heat, and continued with it in the evening. The second day, on Tuesday, I met the deceased in the sick bay lying down. I don’t know if his health was deteriorated when I met him sleeping,” she said.
