The minister of state for health, Osagie Ehanire, has pledged to look into allegations of corruption and underwhelming patient care raised against the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, by a collaborative investigation of BusinessDay and TheCable Newspaper Journalism Foundation.
After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one-week, investigative journalist ‘Fisayo Soyombo had gone under cover at the hospital, popularly known as ‘Yaba Left,’ for three weeks in November 2019, including 10 straight days on ward admission.
His investigation, published on Wednesday, 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 stigmatising of its very own patients”.
Reacting to the story via his Twitter handle, Ehanire wrote: “This will be looked into immediately.”
Only the first part of the story has been published. The second and final part is due to be released on Friday.
Ibrahim Adeyemi
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