The Task force on Private Health
facilities set up by Oyo State government said it has caught a nurse
conducting surgery on a patient in a private hospital in Iseyin town in
the state.
Leaders
of the team while briefing journalists declared that they got to the
Agbejemate Hospital and Maternity Centre in Iseyin at about 1:00p.m and
met the male nurse in theatre carrying out a hernia surgery on a patient
on Wednesday.
It however noted that the hospital has been closed since then.
It
was learnt that the nurse, who is also the owner of the hospital, was a
retired theatre nurse. He was subsequently served a notice to report at
the Oyo State Ministry of Health.
The
task force, which visited other five health facilities in the town,
also closed four other hospitals for offences ranging from
non-registration of the premises, unhygienic hospital environment and
failure to have qualified medical staff on ground.
Other
four hospitals closed include; Awidire Annex hospital, Insha Allah
Clinic and Maternity Centre, Providence Clinic and Maternity and
Anwar-ul Islam Movement Hospital.
Chairman
of the Task Force and Director, Secondary Health Care and Training, Oyo
State Ministry of Health, Dr. Adebisi Ayoola, said that the management
of the hospitals had been served to report at the state secretariat in
Ibadan.
He added that “The ministry will penalise him for that because he is not supposed to operate patients at all”.
Ayoola
who said visitations had also been made to other hospitals in Ibadan
and Oyo also noted that the ministry received reports on medical
negligence and deaths arising from unqualified medical practitioners
from private health facilities on daily basis.
He
said although nurses and community health workers were allowed to
register and operate health facilities, only doctors are allowed to
register hospitals and carry out surgical operations.” –
Source: The Daily Post
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