November 29, 2015 – Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has petitioned the Lagos State Government to investigate allegations of unprofessional conduct and poor medical situation at the Rauf Aregbesola Model Health Centre in Alimosho, Lagos.
In a petition signed by Executive Director of the Group, Mr. Nelson Ekujimi, the group alleged that the hospital stinks adding that the hospital as presently constituted is nothing but a death trap and called on the state government to step in before things get out of hand.
“Sir, we wish to bring to your notice for immediate investigation, our observation and reports received for a long time now, of the shoddy, epileptic, inhuman, non-caring and threat to life activities of the personnel of the Rauf Aregbesola Model Health Centre, Alimosho local government, Lagos state.
“The activities of this health facility according to our reports and accounts over time, has become a theatre of death instead of a life-saving centre which was the purpose of its existence.
“According to the reports of some patients and families who have visited the health facility, the health centre stinks and is unkempt, there is shortage of well trained and motivated staff, the consulting rooms are empty, patients wait endlessly for hours to see a doctor, patients are sent to purchase exercise books for medical records, in a postnatal ward, only one nurse attends to patients with no doctor available, patients become emergency medical personnel for fellow patients because of shortage of medical personnel, when there is power outage, candles become the source of power supply, attention to patients is epileptic and unfriendly.
“ In fact, the general complaints is that if you don’t want to compound your health situation or lose your life, stay away from this health centre which has become a death centre”, the group said.
It noted that health facility started deteriorating some two years ago adding that today, the provision of health services at the centre is at the lowest ebb and needs to be addressed in order for the government to deliver on its health promises to the good people of Alimosho local government in particular and Lagosians, in general.
“Sir, we trust that you will use your good office to investigate and correct the anomalies occurring in this health facility which has become a sore point in the discharge of governmental responsibility to the people”, the group said.
