APC tackles Uniosun over alleged looting of mother-child hospital

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By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo

The All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Osun State connected Monday engaged successful a warfare of words with the absorption of Osun State University Teaching Hospital implicit alleged looting of a mother-child infirmary sponsored by the Federal Government.

The APC successful a connection issued by its Director of Media and Information Kola Olabisi alleged that the absorption of the teaching infirmary looted the 100-bed infirmary but the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Emmanuel Afolabi described the looting allegation arsenic untrue, saying the installation was handed implicit to the teaching hospital.

According to Olabisi, The Mother and Child attraction Hospital successful Osogbo was commissioned successful 2022 arsenic portion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) inaugural of precocious President Muhammadu Buhari aimed astatine improving maternal and kid wellness successful Osun State.

“The infirmary astatine commissioning had implicit 100-bed capacity, 4 labour rooms, operating theatres, VIP wards and offices, afloat equipped.

“It is disheartening that the authorities authorities has allowed the centre to deplore portion facilities installed determination are regular looted by the authorities authorities officials to fraudulently bring glory to the authorities government.

“We, arsenic a party, are hereby alerting the Federal Government of the seeming governmental undertone astir the centre and besides imploring the Federal Government arsenic a substance of urgency to devise a strategy to retrieve her instrumentality successful the custody of Osun State Government and revamp the centre for effectual usage of the citizens”, helium added.

However, Dr Afolabi said the contented of looting is fake, arsenic the installation was handed implicit to the teaching infirmary absorption since 3 years ago.

His words, “The world is that determination is thing similar looting, Osun State is for each of america we are each present to guarantee that we bash our champion to determination this authorities guardant successful respective of governmental affiliation, the citizenry is primary.

“Most of the instrumentality that are there, they are artillery based, galore of them person mislaid their batteries due to the fact that we spell determination virtually everytime to check.

“Because of the artillery of equipment, I don’t privation issues to hap connected them, past we person accreditation for station postgraduate aesculapian doctors. We conscionable determination fewer incubators and monitors, I felt that these things, we tin usage it for the intent of accreditation and we followed owed process by ensuring the audit, astatine each point, each these information agencies person inventory of the instrumentality we moved”.

He added that the installation was not enactment to usage 3 years aft owed to shortage of unit who fled the state for greener pasture.

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