Going by the decrepit clinical and medical facilities dotting all the surgical theatres, clinical wards and medical laboratories at Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) located in Sagamu, Ogun State, Governor Dapo Abiodun says the state-owned teaching hospital is not fit for out-patients’ treatment.
Governor Abiodun, who made a working visit to the Teaching Hospital named after the first democratically elected governor of the state – Olabisi Onabanjo, also noted that the hospital was unsuitable for the training and internship of medical students, especially medical doctors that were trainees of the hospital.
Speaking with a team of journalists that accompanied him on the inspection of the clinical and medical facilities at the teaching hospital on Sunday, Governor Abiodun expressed worries over the deplorable condition of the hospital, which he said used to be one of the best, but now substandard.
The governor observed that many of the clinical and medical equipment were either obsolete or not functional, and the hospital’s morgue was overstretched and overtaken by offensive odour permeating the hospital’s environment, owing to dearth of maintenance and non-availability of needed and functional equipment.
When the governor was asked about what informed the inspection of state-owned teaching hospital, he explained that the visit was informed by earlier meeting with health workers and management of the teaching hospital, saying he had followed up report he got about the position of the hospital being the only teaching hospital in the state.
He said, “This visit was informed by my meeting with the Heads of the Health Institutions, Hospital Managements. It is the only teaching hospital in the state, and with the report I got, which is disheartening. It is worse than deplorable.
“I am putting up a team, after a final report from the Medical Director. I do not see how this place can produce good doctors; we shall go back to the drawing board. The place is substandard. This hospital is in depressing state. We shall look into facilities and personnel.”
