The Lagos state University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, has described rumours that the Bola Tinubu Health and Diagnostic Centre at the health institution is owned by President Bola Tinubu as untrue.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the Chief Medical Director of the teaching hospital, Prof. Tokunbo Fabamwo made this clarification in a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday noting that this was necessary as some social media posts had linked ownership of the facility to the president, with allegations that workers there are anti-Yoruba people.
‘To start with, the Nigerian president doesn’t own the facility. It is a public-private venture with a memorandum of understanding signed by private entrepreneurs with the Lagos State Ministries of Health and Justice.
It happens to be named after the Nigerian president but hey, so are so many other facilities named after eminent Nigerians who do not necessarily own them.
The allegation of anti -Yoruba practices is as ludicrous as they come. It does not and cannot happen.
The headship of this radiological and laboratory facility as well as the principal officers are all Yoruba people.
Needless to say that though competence, knowledge and skills are paramount in recruiting manpower to a high tech facility like that, there is no deliberate policy against Yoruba people’ he said.
The statement noted that the involvement of LASUTH in the facility did not extend beyond providing a building for its operations, as well as the patient load.
‘Although LASUTH has an oversight function on the clinical operations of the facility, it does not, nor is it even expected to get involved in the recruitment processes.
However, that said, any blatant policy against Yoruba people would definitely have attracted the attention of LASUTH management and would have been characteristically dealt with in a decisive manner’ he added.
The CMD urged members of the public to disregard the writer of the fictional piece, adding that the real objective of publishing such needs to be subjected to scrutiny.
The BTHDC is a public-private partnership between PPC Ltd. and the Lagos state Government.
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