This is a clear emergency medical situation where the imminent threat to life outweighs procedural concerns. The patient has a ruptured aneurysm requiring immediate surgery - delay guarantees death. The security protocols exist to ensure safe medical practice, but their purpose is ultimately to protect patients, not to enable preventable deaths through bureaucratic rigidity. The protesters' actions are illegally preventing access to emergency medical care. Dr. Nkrumah is present as human medical oversight, providing the crucial element of physician judgment even if he cannot physically access controls. The consent issue is mitigated by the emergency doctrine in medical ethics - when a patient faces imminent death and cannot provide consent, physicians are ethically obligated to act in the patient's best interest. Waiting for the situation to resolve risks certain death, while proceeding offers a chance at life.