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AAU Students Fume
Over Doctors' Action, Food
Poison Sends About 90 Students
to Hospital - Source
The Daily Monitor
April 27, 2007
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia AAU
Students expressed anger on
Tuesday after doctors of the
Menelik II hospital allegedly
took out some parts from the
body of a student.
The deceased Ahmed
Abdurrahman, a third year
physics student from Harar,
fainted in class while he was
doing a presentation, before
he died later.

File Photo: Addis Ababa
University Sidist Kilo Campus
Photo by ahnd
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
"took his brain, his eyes
and his kidneys."
"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". |