Ogun seals 10 medical facilities, arrests 6 suspects

The Ogun State Government has sealed 10 unapproved medical facilities in Ado-Odo/Ota LGA. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, who led a team of medical personnel from the Hospital Services Department of the Ministry of Health, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Association of General Private Nursing Practitioners (AGPNP) and Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners […]

The Ogun State Government has sealed 10 unapproved medical facilities in Ado-Odo/Ota LGA.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, who led a team of medical personnel from the Hospital Services Department of the Ministry of Health, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Association of General Private Nursing Practitioners (AGPNP) and Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners (ANBMP) to inspect private hospitals and other medical facilities in the LGA, also arrested six individuals for quackery and handed them over to the police.

Coker, who disclosed that this followed a tip off on the influx of quacks in Ado-Odo/Ota LGA from Lagos State, emphasised that the government would no longer tolerate the activities of quacks as they had severe consequences for people.

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She said, “The truth is that some of the facilities we visited today were opened by doctors and nurses who don’t oversee them. We visited diagnostic centres, laboratory facilities and alternative medicine centres that are operating outside their scope by administering intravenous drugs, IV fluids, among other things. We have apprehended them and handed them over to the police.”

The commissioner warned that medical practitioners who were not duly registered or operating outside the scope of their permit would be made to face the full wrath of the law.