Group Raises Alarm Over State of Health Centre in Lagos

An advocacy group, the Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM), has petitioned the Honourable Commissioner, Lagos State Ministry of Health, to investigate the activities of Rauf Aregbesola Model Health Centre, Alimosho, Lagos.The group called on the commissioner to investigate 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 petition continued: “The activities of this health facility according to our received reports and accounts over time, have 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 post natal 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 complaint 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 petition concludes by calling on the Commissioner for Health in Lagos 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.