– The State House Medical Centre which provides medical services to the President, Vice-President and their families, aides, members of staff of the State House is dire need of drugs and other essential medical items

– The State House Medical Centre which
provides medical services to the President,
Vice-President and their families, aides,
members of staff of the State House is dire
need of drugs and other essential medical
items
– Some patients who spoke with the newspaper
said the medical centre could no longer boast
of “ordinary malaria drugs.”
No drugs in State House Clinic
As shocking and unbelievable as it sounds, , the
State House Medical Centre which provides
medical services to the President, Vice-President
and their families, aides, members of staff of the
State House is dire need of drugs and other
essential medical items Punch newspaper is
reporting.
Recall that the State House Medical Centre got
N3.87bn allocated to it in the 2016 Appropriation
Act.
According to the report, patients were now being
asked to go and buy drugs from outside as they
were no longer available in the centre.

It was reported that kidney problems who are
currently undergoing dialysis in the facility can no
longer have their twice a week dialysis as the clinic
has been cancelling their appointment.
Text messages sent by the hospital to patients to
buy medical items prove that the hospital is
grounded.
“Mr. XXX (names withheld), when u (sic) are
coming for dialysis on Monday, buy IVF Normal
Saline to be used for ur (sic) dialysis. The office
doesn’t have it. Buy like four pieces,” Punch
quoted a text message sent by the hospital to a
patient.

Another patient said the centre’s management
cancelled the session because of non-availability
of bloodline.
“Gudevening (sic), we can’t dialize (sic) you
tomorrow because we don’t have bloodline. When
it is available, I will get back to you. Pls (sic)
dialyse (sic) somewhere else. Thanks,” a message
sent to him by the centre.
The patient said the first time the session was
cancelled, he was referred to a private hospital in
Garki where he paid N20,000.
“As a result of the stress I passed through, by the
time I returned home, I was very weak. My health
situation deteriorated midnight and my people
rushed me to the hospital. I was discharged about
three days after,” he said.

Other patients who spoke with the newspaper said
the medical centre could no longer boast of
“ordinary malaria drugs.”
“The clinic does not even have ordinary
paracetamol. Paracetamol was included in the list
of drugs they asked me to go and buy recently.
Before now, they were giving us drugs,” another
patient said.
The Nigerian government is yet to deny or confirm
the report as the minister of health, Prof. Isaac
Adewole, could not be reached.










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