Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Jamaicans in mourning mood as Bilal Abayomi has passed away as his cause of death is unknown. (Read More Here).
The death of medical intern Bilal Abayomi, whose story of overcoming the odds resonated with Jamaicans last August, has left young medics shocked and grief-stricken. (Read More Here).
Abayomi, 22, collapsed some time after 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday while with family members at membership shopping retail chain PriceSmart, The Gleaner was told.
He was reportedly rushed to the University Hospital of the West Indies in St Andrew, where he was placed in the intensive care unit.
According to Devon Brewster, president of UWI Smoker 2019, Smoker is a 60-year-old tradition of The University of the West Indies, Mona, campus where the third year cohort for every medical and dental class puts on a play, the proceeds of which go towards the aid of a Type C hospital in Jamaica.
“And so the Class of 2022 had the responsibility in 2019, and so we put on that production at the Phillip Sherlock theatre and selected Falmouth Public Hospital from some options that we had to be the beneficiary of this production,” Brewster explained.
He noted that the group was able to raise close to $3 million from which they purchased two five-drawer emergency trollies, five baby bassinets, with mattresses, five hospital beds, with mattresses, six privacy screens with frames and a vital sign monitor, which were handed over to the Falmouth hospital on Monday.
“After visiting the hospital, first by some students of the western Jamaica cohort and then some students of the Mona cohort, we recognised that the needs at Falmouth hospital far exceeded its capacity to deliver, especially in light of the reality whereby the hospital is supporting some of the services overflowing from the Cornwall Regional Hospital,” Brewster told the Jamaica Observer West.
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