MEDICAL DISTRESS ALERT SYSTEM USING RFID TECHNOLOGY BY OCHU EMMANUEL Matric No: 129099008 Department of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi-araba, Lagos. PROJECT REPORT JUNE, 2015 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: 1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The rate of Mortality in the health care sector is most times caused by delayed response to patients in the various wards of a medical centre of which an increase in the number of