The affected hospitals are Devine Citadel Hospital, Ado-Ekiti; Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Maternity and Hospital, Emure Ekiti; Emmanuel Medical Clinic, Emure Ekiti; Lexical Clinic, Ise Ekiti, and JOA Medical Centre, Ado-Ekiti.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Saturday on the development, the Director Hospital Services and Training, Dr. Kola Adu, who led the Ministry’s monitoring team on the inspection tour of private hospitals that culminated in the closure of the health facilities, and stressed that any hospital found wanting would be made to face the wrath of the law.
According to Adu, the clinics were sealed off for offences including operating in an unhygienic environment, using unqualified and inadequate personnel as well as non-registration of their health facilities and failure to renew their operational licences.
He cautioned patients against patronising unlicensed private clinics, stressing that the warning was for their safety.
Adu also charged other private health facilities in the state to properly register and renew their operational licences, saying that the state Government would not hesitate to invoke the full weight of the law on erring proprietors.
He explained that the Ministry of Health commenced an aggressive monitoring and inspection of all private Health Institutions to maintain a reasonable standard in the health care sector in order to further reduce mortality and morbidity rate in the state. The Director said the proprietors of the sealed hospitals have been directed to report to the supervisory ministry stressing that anyone that failed to comply would be further sanctioned.
Meanwhile, as part of efforts to ensure efficiency and boost revenue generation in Ekiti State, the Internal Revenue Service has decentralised the operations of Motor Licensing Offices across the 16 Local Governments Areas of the State.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Revenue Matters, Mr. Ropo Ogunjobi who made this known at a forum in Ado-Ekiti, noted that the move would also enable vehicle owners register their vehicles at the designated centers nearest to them.
Ogunjobi noted that in view of the sharp fall in the global oil prices and the attendant reduction of revenue accruing to the state from the Federation accounts, the State has to look inwards in order to meet its financial obligations.
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