Osun invests N1.7bn in capital projects in LAUTECH

Acting Chief Medical Director, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, said Osun Government had invested N1.7 billion in capital projects in the hospital.

Lasisi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo that the amount was spent on the projects in the hospital in the last four years.

He, however, said that in spite of the huge investment, most of the projects had remained undone and uncompleted.
He disclosed that one of the projects, a laboratory complex, was without ‘’one single furniture”.

Lasisi, who assumed the acting chief executive of the hospital in September, said that the hospital was in ‘’comatose’’.
He stated that forensic examiners were currently scrutinising the books to check details of finances of the institution ‘’in the last four years and come up with recommendations’’.

“Aside the investigation on financial transactions in the hospital, the forensic experts will also probe the sudden upsurge in the number of staff between 2012 and now,” he added.

According to him, the investigation became necessary in the face of acute shortage of core clinical staff in the hospital.
“By the time I assumed office about three weeks ago, I met a hospital in a state of comatose; the resident doctors were on strike and there was total paralysis of every activity.

“More so, documented evidence shows that government has invested a total of N1.7 billion as capital project in this hospital.

“In spite of that, there are many projects that are undone or not properly done. One of the examples is the new laboratory complex; the building is there but there is no furniture,” Lasisi said.