FCTA To Seal Health Facilities Over Poor Services

To ensure effective and qualitative healthcare delivery in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the authorities have vowed to seal off any health facility providing services below the recommended standard within the territory.

This was made known yesterday when the Private Health establishments registration and monitoring committee (PHERMC), under the Department of Medical and Diagnostics, embarked on a three-day monitoring tour of health facilities in Abuja.

The director of Medical and Diagnostic, Health and Human Services Secretariat FCTA, Dr Abubakar Ahmadu, who led the team said any facility found to perform below the recommended standard or seen to render any service beyond the scope approved will be sealed off.

He said that the essence of this visit is to have an intensive inspection of the private health facilities in the Federal Capital Territory to ensure that facilities that are registered with PHERMC function according to the services they were registered to provide.

“So far, what we have seen is that some facilities that were registered earlier are still maintaining the standard that we expect of them. But so far, we have had cause to seal the services of one particular facility, which was providing services beyond the scope of which it was registered,” he said.

He said that whereas some facilities have provided optimum service according to the approval granted by PHERMC, some have been discovered to perform below par.

Ahmadu warned that the administration will not hesitate to seal off any facility that fails to provide optimum service to the residents of FCT.