The Executive Secretary of LSBTS, Dr Bodunrin Osikomaiya, who disclosed this in a statement, said the hospital has been closed due to allegations of collecting and transfusing unscreened blood.
Osikomaiya said that the health facility was sealed by LSBTS and the Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) after receiving a tip-off from a concerned citizen.
He said: “A concerned citizen had reached out to us to report the unwholesome practices of the facility.
Following the tip-off, and after thorough investigations, the enforcement teams of LSBTS and HEFAMAA, during their joint monitoring exercise in the area, visited the facility and confirmed to be true, the unwholesome, unprofessional, and unethical medical practices and conduct of the hospital management.”
“This facility was sealed for contravening the provision of the Blood Transfusion Service law, specifically, law 10, item 31 which states that no person within Lagos State shall transfer blood into a patient unless such blood has been screened, tested, labeled by the state blood transfusion committee, and found to be negative for all transmissible diseases including HIV I and II, Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis and any other disease as may be deemed necessary by LSBTS.”
The Executive Secretary stated that the details of the blood donors and transfusion recipients have been retrieved from the management of the facility, adding that citizens who had been transfused with unscreened units of blood at the facility are being traced as part of the protocol, to know their clinical health status, ascertain and ensure their health safety.
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