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Ondo seals off hospital over illegal practices

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7 years ago

March 29, 2019

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The monitoring team of the Ondo State Ministry of Health, on Thursday, sealed off the Arib Hospital in Okitipupa.

The owner of the hospital, identified as Dr Olusola Aribo, was accused of operating a training school for female nurses without obtaining a licence from the government.

According to the ministry officials, no fewer than 52 auxiliary nurses were on the hospital premises, undergoing training.

The leader of the team and Director, Nursing Services, Ondo State Ministry of Health, Mrs Alice Ogundele, who spoke with journalists, said it was alarming that some hospitals in the locality had more than 50 quacks in training, when accredited schools of nursing and midwifery were only allowed to admit maximum of 50 students.

Ogundele said, “This trend is dangerous to the nursing profession, because it will not allow qualified nurses to get jobs as these quacks are a source of cheap labour.

“These quacks, called auxiliary nurses, constitute danger to humanity as they are half-baked; they do not know the rationale behind their actions and are perpetrating several activities in the health sector, such as operating patent medicine stores as hospitals.”

She named three other hospital visited in Okitipupa were St. Peter’s Hospital, Akingbola Hospital and Oresanya Hospital, adding that their trainee nurses took to their heels on sighting the monitoring team.

She added that letters of warning were sent to them.

In his reaction, the acting Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Dipo Durojaye, who confirmed the development, said the government had vowed to sanitise the health sector and get rid of quacks in order to safeguard the health of the people of the state.

Durojaye added that it had come to the knowledge of the ministry the wrong acts being perpetrated in the health sector in the state, noting that the government was poised to sanitise the sector.

He stated, “It will not be business as usual in the Ondo State health sector as the government will descend heavily on quacks and those operating illegal hospitals.

“Any private health facility caught training health personnel will be sanctioned, because the government will not allow the lives of the people to be endangered.”