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Health minister vows to probe findings of exposé report on ‘Yaba Left’
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has vowed to look into allegations of corruption, rot and low quality of care for patients at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
The findings were results of an undercover report by investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo.
Soyombo had gone undercover at the hospital, popularly known as ‘Yaba Left’, for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on ward admission.
The first part of his investigation titled: “UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (I): Bed-space corruption, terrible food, well-fed rats… Many things not right at ‘Yaba Left’” was published, on Wednesday.
The report unveiled the “decrepit state of hospital facilities, gross shortage of critical staff despite a bloated workforce widely believed to be populated by ghost workers, low quality of service delivery, arbitrary charges on patients — all stemming from personal and institutional corruption and the hospital’s implicit stigmatizing of its very own patients”.
READ ALSO: Fisayo Soyombo goes undercover again to expose the many things not right at ‘Yaba Left’
Reacting to the story via his Twitter handle, Ehanire wrote: “This will be looked into immediately.”
See the minister’s tweet:
This will be looked into immediately https://t.co/UbLQKPsTRm
— Osagie Ehanire (@OsagieEhanire) January 22, 2020
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