The Lagos State House of Assembly, through its
Committee on Health Services, ordered the closure of the blood bank section of
Gbagada General Hospital.
The
committee, which was accompanied by the Health Facility Monitoring and
Accreditation Agency took the action after discovering unethical procedures during
an inspection exercise of the hospital, a statement by the Assembly said.
The
Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Segun Olulade, who lamented the unhealthy
situation at the blood bank unit, authorised the immediate sealing off of the
blood bank due to the anomaly of screened and unscreened blood muddle observed
by HEFEMAA team.
Team
leader and Executive Secretary of HEFEMAA, Dr. Mabel Adjekughele, had observed
that the blood bank was in bad state, with screened and unscreened blood kept
in the same place without proper marking.
Noting
that this act of negligence by those in charge of the blood bank posed danger
to those who patronise the hospital, the HEFEMAA team leader advised that the
blood bank be sealed pending when the place would be put in order.
The committee also visited the Cardiac and Renal
Centre also located in Gbagada General Hospital, where the Director of the
Centre, Prof. Babatunde Olabode Green told the committee that some of the
acquired world-class medical equipment were not functioning, either due to
improper installations or poor quality of installation materials.
Prof. Green also blamed power supply for the
failure to run the facility to its full capacity, just as he noted that the
facility was commissioned and handed over to the Renescor Health in that
condition.
In his response, Hon. Olulade stated that the
committee will summon the contractors that handled the Cardiac and Renal Centre
project; Ministry of Health officials, Public-Private Partnership and all
necessary Agencies to investigate the poor state of the Centre.
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