29/11/23
DANIELS OG
Members of The House of Representatives Committee on Health have revealed that Five wards with about 150 beds, have been closed down at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba due to a shortage of health workers.
The chairman of the committee, Dr. Amos Magaji explained that the five wards had to be shut because there were no health workers to operate them despite the large number of patients received at the institutions on a daily basis.
While Appreciating the effort of the federal Government over renewal of infrastructure at the public health Institution in the last few years, the Chairman and his Committee Members,noted that not much can be achieved when there are no human Personal to work with the modern facilities provided so far.
Speaking with newsmen shortly after an oversight visit to the teaching hospital, Magaji noted that the alarming rate of migration of health workers was becoming a national embarrassment to the country.
He, however, said that steps were being taken to halt the massive exodus of health professionals abroad.
The Sixty One Year Old Public Health institution,LUTH is a federal Government Hospital that receives a large Number of Patients on a daily basis
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