Ogun bans auxiliary nurses, shuts eight clinics

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NIGERIA: OGUN State government has banned auxiliary nurses from running health facilities in all the nooks and crannies of the state.

The government said that the auxiliary nurses lacked the required expertise to do so.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, disclosed this during a monitoring exercise to ensure compliance to registration cum re-validation of private health facilities in Abeokuta South and Odeda Local Government areas of the state.

Ipaye explained that the ban became necessary to guide against quackery and unprofessionalism in the health sector.

The Commissioner further said that the present administration would no longer condone activities of quacks as it endangers lives of unsuspecting residents.

‎He stated that eight private health facilities were shut in Abeokuta South and Odeda Local Government areas in addition to the 58 earlier shut for not meeting up with the deadline for re-validation and registration of their facilities issued by the State Ministry of Health last January.

According to him, the affected health facilities include Soffy’s Medical Center, Conner Stone Hospital, Omobalogun Clinic, Nosirullah Medical Clinic and Maternity Home, Olubusola Maternity Home, Ridiom Clinic and Maternity Home, and Eriayo Maternity Home.