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by Sodiq Oyeleke
Former spokesman of the pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, on Sunday in a statement deplored the state of hospitals in Ekiti State and asked the government to wake up to its duties.
“The present state of infrastructures and medical services in hospitals in Ekiti State should be a source of concern to well-meaning indigenes of the state,” Adeyeye said in a statement by the director-general of his campaign office, Bisi Kolawole.
Adeyeye, who is also a Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Ekiti, said the state government should stop paying lip service to health care delivery in the state.
“Spending a whooping sum of N70m on a ‘Health Mission’ programme in which paracetamol, cotton wool, cotton bud, soap and toothpaste are distributed when hospitals in the state are under-staffed with decaying infrastructures is a waste of public fund,” he said.
Adeyeye said he was worried that all the 18 general hospitals in Ekiti were no longer functioning “having been closed down because of a renovation project that has been abandoned.”
He said; “In June, this year, we were told that contracts were awarded for renovation of the 18 general hospitals in the state at a cost of over N1bn, with three months as deadline for completion.
“More than five months after, contractors have not been mobilised, even after many of them have reached the mandatory 30 percent completion, thus making the contractors to abandon the site.
“Right now, the General Hospitals in Ikole, Oye, Ilupeju, Aiyede, Ikere, Okemesi, Iyin, Aramoko and others towns are shut and the people of Ekiti are the ones that are suffering.
“Even in the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, the situation is alarming. Patients are now being made to bring fans and water from their homes while one nurse is being made to attend to over 40 patients as a result of dearth of medical personnel.
“Unfortunately, the hospital was not in this state when the present government took over from the immediate past PDP government.
“As at October 15, 2010 that the PDP government was removed, there were 36 consultants, 90 doctors, 271 nurses and 12 pharmacists at the teaching hospital. Greater percentage of these medical personnel has since left the hospital.”
Former spokesman of the pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, on Sunday in a statement deplored the state of hospitals in Ekiti State and asked the government to wake up to its duties.
“The present state of infrastructures and medical services in hospitals in Ekiti State should be a source of concern to well-meaning indigenes of the state,” Adeyeye said in a statement by the director-general of his campaign office, Bisi Kolawole.
Adeyeye, who is also a Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Ekiti, said the state government should stop paying lip service to health care delivery in the state.
“Spending a whooping sum of N70m on a ‘Health Mission’ programme in which paracetamol, cotton wool, cotton bud, soap and toothpaste are distributed when hospitals in the state are under-staffed with decaying infrastructures is a waste of public fund,” he said.
Adeyeye said he was worried that all the 18 general hospitals in Ekiti were no longer functioning “having been closed down because of a renovation project that has been abandoned.”
He said; “In June, this year, we were told that contracts were awarded for renovation of the 18 general hospitals in the state at a cost of over N1bn, with three months as deadline for completion.
“More than five months after, contractors have not been mobilised, even after many of them have reached the mandatory 30 percent completion, thus making the contractors to abandon the site.
“Right now, the General Hospitals in Ikole, Oye, Ilupeju, Aiyede, Ikere, Okemesi, Iyin, Aramoko and others towns are shut and the people of Ekiti are the ones that are suffering.
“Even in the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, the situation is alarming. Patients are now being made to bring fans and water from their homes while one nurse is being made to attend to over 40 patients as a result of dearth of medical personnel.
“Unfortunately, the hospital was not in this state when the present government took over from the immediate past PDP government.
“As at October 15, 2010 that the PDP government was removed, there were 36 consultants, 90 doctors, 271 nurses and 12 pharmacists at the teaching hospital. Greater percentage of these medical personnel has since left the hospital.”
CULLED FROM PUNCH NEWSPAPER
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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