The Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire, has vowed to look into allegations of corruption and underwhelming patient care raised against the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, by a collaborative investigation by BusinessDay and The Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation.
After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one-week, investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo had gone undercover at the hospital, popularly known as ‘Yaba Left’, for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on ward admission.
His investigation, published on Wednesday morning, 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”.
Reacting to the story via his Twitter handle, Mr Ehanire wrote: “This will be looked into immediately.”
This will be looked into immediately https://t.co/UbLQKPsTRm
— Osagie Ehanire (@OsagieEhanire) January 22, 2020
Only the first part of the story has been published as of yet. The second and final part is due to be released on Friday.
