Adeyeye decries parlous state of hospitals in Ekiti, calls for Govt's urgent attention

Afenifere Chieftain and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Ekiti State has called on the State Government to pay more attention to the parlous state of hospitals in the State, saying; "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."

He admonished the state government to stop paying lip service to health care
delivery in the State, adding that; "spending a whooping sum of N70 million 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 dealing infrastructures is a waste of public fund."

In a release issued in Ado-Ekiti today, by the Director General of Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), Hon. Bisi Kolawole, the PDP governorship aspirant said he was worried that all the 18 General Hospitals in the State 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 N1 billion,
with three months as deadline for completion.

"More than five months after, contractors have not been mobilized 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 while the government is busy paying the Deputy Governor's first daughter a sum of N70 million for a wasteful Health Mission programme, with N630m million already wasted on the programme!

"Even in the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), 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 Consultant, 90 Doctors, 271 Nurses and 12 Pharmacists at the Teaching
Hospital. Greater percentage of these medical personnel have since left the
hospital to seek greener pastures elsewhere because of the government's
insensitive to their welfare.

"On November 2, 2013, a nurse at the teaching hospital, Mrs Akinniyi was almost strange to death by a relative of one the patients who died at the female
surgical ward of the hospital, allegedly because of non-availability of medical
personnel to attend to the patient on time.

"The State government should therefore see this appeal beyond politics and pay more attention to health care delivery in the state by fixing the decayed infrastructure in the hospitals and employing more medical personnels to work in the hospitals."