Ogun shuts down 66 illegal hospitals, destroys fake drugs worth millions of naira

Fake drugs worth millions of Naira were destroyed and no fewer than 66 illegal health centres were shut down on Wednesday by the Ogun state government across the state.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka, stated this while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta, the state capital, during the 2013 ministerial press briefing to mark Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s second year in office.

Sokinya revealed that the state government would soon conduct a mass burial for unclaimed corpses in various public hospitals, which were deposited following road accidents in various parts of the state.

He lamented on the dangers of under-qualified and quack healthcare practitioners on the health of Ogun indigenes, pledging that the government was going to prosecute offenders.

Soyinka emphasized that through regular inspection of premises and computerisation of medical and health-related business, proliferation of quack and illegal health centres in the state would be prevented.

In his words, “We are in the middle of prosecuting. But, fortunately or unfortunately, they have asked for out-of-court settlement. We are hoping to ensure that we pursue them to a logical conclusion.

“The prosecution is to act as deterrent to others. We are going to prosecute where we feel there is a criminal activity to send a message to others. They are killing people and definitely some people are going to face sanction.”

He further noted that the planned mass burial for unclaimed corpses which was long overdue would be done properly.

Soyinka was quoted thus, “Yes, we are going to do mass burial, but we are going to do it properly.”

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