The Nigerian health sector stinks from the faeces of
corruption and the chronic sore of mismanagement from the federal level down to
the state and the local government level. Anyone looking for a typical example
of impunity, mismanagement, misappropriation and high handedness in how
government hospitals are being managed by the ‘Sheik’ of our Teaching Hospitals
in Nigeria should come to Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti. The hospital is
in limbo and this is a Save Our Soul message to the corruption-intolerant
President of the Federal Repubic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari.
There
is need by the Buhari- led federal administration to bring the tsunami of
positive change in the country to sweep away the symbol of corruption in the
hospital, who happens to be the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr
Lawrence Majekodunmi Ayodele. One would be weary of exposing this kind of
atrocities during the last democratic government because such will not attract
any fact-finding to the hospital. We hope that this mind boggling expose of the
atrocities going on in the hospital will spur President Buhari to action to nib
the height of illegality and corruption going on in Federal Teaching Hospital,
Ido-Ekiti.
Federal
Teaching Hospital Ido-Ekiti (FETHI), formally Federal Medical Centre (FMC)
Ido-Ekiti was a cynosure to all eyes in terms of services, cooperation among
all cadres of staff, management-staff relationship, peaceful coexistence with
her host community and in the training of the medical professionals. This
laudable feat of the hospital is now a forgotten past, no thanks to the
draconian, selfish, arrogant and managerial emptiness of the present Chief
Medical Director, Dr. Lawrence Majekodunmi Ayodele. The rot in the hospital
stinks, even to the seat of federal
power, though he tries to conceal it by further mischief, trepidation, impunity
and more lies.
The ascension of Dr. Ayodele to the leadership of
FETHI, more than three years ago, was characterized by drama, twist and
ackstab. Truth be told, he was not the best candidate for the position
considering his performance at the interview and intimidating credentials of
numerous candidates that applied for the post. Becoming the CMD of FETHI
corroborates the fact that the constituent unit of any society is a miniature
image of the larger society. It is not a surprise that such a person as Ayodele
became the CMD of FETHI under a rudderless and ‘leadership bereaved’ government
of the last democratic dispensation. His performance at the helms of affairs of
the hospital, therefore is a confirmation of who he is truly is – traitor,
thief and a rogue no to call a spade a serving spoon.
Sterling health delivery in the hospital has
nose-dived to its lowest ebbs under Dr Ayodele’s mismanagement and
maladministration. Patients now groan under exorbitant charges in the face of
poor services delivery as a result of poor and unmaintained infrastructures.
Many a times, oxygen gas for the critically ill patients that are in need of it
and when available the cost will send the patient to the early grave earlier
than his/her ailment. The multi-million naira X-ray Ultrasound, Mammography and
Echocardiography machines are no more working. This has led to referral of
patients that can be managed by the readily available and competent medical
personnel of all cadres in the hospital to neighboring tertiary centres causing
gruesome and avoidable stress to the patients and their relatives. Sending of patients;
especially victims of accidents to Ado-Ekiti from Ido-Ekiti for investigations
like X-ray is a normal thing for the hospital management.
The ECG machine and
the haemodialysis machine have not worked in the last one year. What then is Dr
Ayodele Majekoduni managing at FETHI? His pocket and ego, I guess. The list of
level of rot in FETHI is endless. Patients have got to make photocopy of
investigation forms from their own pockets before doctors could order for suc
on many occasions due to lack of stationeries in the hospital. The hospital has
been run to a halt. Drugs sold at the Pharmacy department are either fake or
sub-standard and same are sold at exorbitant prices such that patients’
relatives prefer to buy drugs at nearby pharmacy shops in the town after
collecting prescription note from the doctors, while the hospital is indebted
to drug suppliers, to the tune of several millions of naira. Thanks to the
hospital drug revolving fund that has stopped to exist since the inception of
Dr Ayodele’s administration.
FETHI used to be a pace-setter, the first Federal
Medical Centre to commence Residency Trainig but same hospital can be tagged
today as the most unfriendly to resident doctors. It is disgraceful, alarming
and disheartening that FETHI is the ONLY government hospital whose doctor is on
industrial strike in the whole of South West of Nigeria. At the same time, the
nurses are on duty wearing MUFTI to show their unhappiness to their unpaid
uniform allowance for three years.
Instead of the Dr Ayodele to do the needful,
he has been engaging in name-caling, game-playing and ‘maradonic’ maneuvering
as his usual antics.
President Muhammadu Buhari, through the federal
ministry of health should come to the aid of the good people of Ekiti, the
patients that are under the yoke of Dr Ayodele’s mess and the staff of FETHI
who have been pocketed by his threats and witch-hunting by sendng a fact
finding team to assess the level of rot. The hope of the masses lies in the
sincerity of purpose of the present government to punish every pharaoh in the
civil service of Nigeria.
The health sector of any government is strategic and
important in determining the performance of a government and it is believed
that the sanitization and reform of President Muhammadu Buhari of the health
sector can commence from Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti.
Ayodele is a thief, let the government deal with him
ReplyDeleteAyodele a thief? No sir. HE is an armed robber. Buhari needs to do away with him as soon as possible. The hospital is getting worse but his properties are multiplying.
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