Facilities in the Ogun State Government -owned hospital are also deplorable. In most of the hospitals, patients said prescribed drugs were not available .
When one of our correspondents visited the General Hospital , Ifo, on Friday , the toilets were dirty and patients resorted to the use of potties .
The situation was the same at the General Hospital , Ilaro, where a worker told one of our correspondents that the emergency unit was not well equipped .
“Some of the toilets are dilapidated . The hospital should be renovated. The government should purchase medical instrument to equip the facility, ” the worker stated .
But when contacted, the state Commissioner for Health , Dr Babatunde Ipaye , disagreed with the patients who said that drugs were not available at the general hospitals in the state .
He stated , “You cannot go to any general hospital and not find drugs . If you talk of drug supply , I met a revolving account of about N 27 m . We have drugs worth more than N400 m . They have drugs as and when due , so , nobody in Ogun State will say there are no drugs in our general hospitals.”
The commissioner , however , said many people did not have confidence in the general hospitals in the state because of poor funding .
He said , “I wish I had more funds . Funding is an issue . We have not met the World Health Organisation ’s recommendation for funding in the health sector as a country .”
On dirty toilets in the hospitals , Ipaye said , “I cannot go and do the cleaning for them , we have a team responsible for that .”
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