Petition for investigation of the activities of Rauf Aregbasola model health centre, Alimosho
COMMITTEE FOR THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLES MANDATE (CPPM)
10, Afolabi Lesi Street, Ilupeju, Lagos
Telephone: 08023172694, 07033853232
Email: cppmandate@gmail.com
30th November, 2015.
The Honourable Commissioner,
Lagos State Ministry of Health,
State Secretariat,
Alausa, Ikeja.
Lagos.
Dear Sir,
With due regards, I have the pleasure and authority of the governing board of Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) to intimate you with this civil society organization which is at the forefront of the struggle for constitutionalism and enthroning probity, transparency and accountability into our public life.
Sir, we wish to bring to your notice for immediate investigation, our observation and reports received for a long time now, of the shoddy, epileptic, inhuman, non caring and threat to life activities of the personnel of the Rauf Aregbesola Model Health Centre, Alimosho local government, Lagos state.
The activities of this health facility according to our received reports and accounts over time, has become a theatre of death instead of a life saving centre which was the purpose of its existence.
According to the reports of some patients and families who have visited the health facility, the health centre stinks and is unkempt, there is shortage of well trained and motivated staff, the consulting rooms are empty, patients wait endlessly for hours to see a doctor, patients are sent to purchase exercise books for medical records, in a post natal ward, only one nurse attends to patients with no doctor available, patients become emergency medical personnel for fellow patients because of shortage of medical personnel, when there is power outage, candles become the source of power supply, attention to patients is epileptic and unfriendly. Infact, the general complaints is that if you don’t want to compound your health situation or lose your life, stay away from this health centre which has become a death centre.
Sir, from reports gathered, the situation of this health facility started deteriorating some two years ago and today, the provision of health services at this centre is at the lowest ebb and needs to be addressed in order for the government to deliver on its health promises to the good people of Alimosho local government in particular and Lagosians, in general.
Sir, we trust that you will use your good office to investigate and correct the anomalies occurring in this health facility which has become a sore point in the discharge of governmental responsibility to the people.
Thanks, as we await prompt action on our petition.
Yours Sincerely,
Nelson Ekujumi,
Executive Chairman
