Olukayode Babalola
Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Keffi has debunked allegations on social media that patients are made to buy fuel before operations are carried out on them.
This is contained in a statement signed by Miss Esther Bature, Head of Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the medical centre and made available to newsmen in Keffi local government area of Nasarawa state on Friday.
According to Esther, the allegation that patients are made to buy fuel before operations are carried out or wait for power supply is untrue, malicious and misleading.
She explained that a recent rainstorm that occurred in Keffi and it’s environs disrupted power supply with many electric poles broken, yet the medical centre made use of it’s contingency plans in terms of power supply and did not at any point mandate patients to buy fuel before been attended to.
“Due to the effect of that rainstorm, power was disrupted for more than 48 hours. The centre was not an exception.
“Yet the hospital has solar panels, petrol and diesel generators to augment public power supply at critical areas of the hospital like the theatre, radiology, Intensive Care Unit among others.
“So at no time was any patient asked to go and buy fuel before been attended to. The peddlers of such rumours must be bent on discrediting the efforts that the current management is putting in making healthcare experience in the centre a pleasurable one,” she said.
Nature added that the medical centre is more than ever committed to rendering the best of services to humanity, as this is one of its core mandates.
“It is to this end that we implore everyone, especially the good friends of the hospital to walk into the facility, ask questions for clarity and even report their experiences to the management,” she said. (NAN)
