He said that as soon as the old man and his son arrived the state capital from their home town, Akunu-Akoko, than he started feeling uncomfortable and vomited.
The son was said to have drawn the attention of the officials in charge of the exercise to the man’s unstable condition but no step was taken to save the situation.
Deji later told reporters that his father, who he said was suffering from malaria, had been taken medication in the last five days.
His words: “My father was sick and this made it difficult for him to walk. I have to back him to this place. When he started vomiting, I shouted for help but there were no medical personnel on ground to offer first aid treatment.”
The lifeless body of Pa Ayodele was lying on the bare floor for about two hours before the attention of the Ondo State Government was drawn to it.
The Head of Service, Mr. Ajose Kudehinbu, rushed to the scene and directed the state’s hospitals management board to send an ambulance to the place to convey the deceased to his home town.
No official of the screening committee offered to speak with our correspondent, but the Secretary of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Prince Adejare Adesida, blamed the incident on the slow procedure adopted by the committee members.
Some people, who spoke with reporters at the scene, wondered why the screening committee, which had made each of the 5,000 pensioners to buy a form each at N500 should not provide necessary logistics to take care of the aged people.
It was even discovered that the committee was making use of one single computer set to screen the over 5,000 people.
It will be recalled that two persons slumped during a similar exercise last year. While one of them died instantly, the second was later revived at a nearby hospital.
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