disclosed that it had destroyed fake drugs
worth N1.5 million and shut down 66 illegal
healthcare centres across the state.
The government also revealed that it
would soon conduct a mass burial for
unclaimed corpses in various public hospitals,
which were deposited following roads accidents in
various parts of the state.
State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun
Soyinka, stated these while addressing newsmen in
Abeokuta during the 2013 ministerial press briefing
to mark Governor Ibikunle Amosun's second year
in office.
Soyinka lamented that the menace of under-
qualified and fake healthcare practitioners and
businesses of all types takes a terrible toll on the
health of Ogun indigenes, pledging that the
government was going to prosecute offenders.
According to the commissioner, plans are on top
gear to prevent proliferation of quacks and illegal
health centres in the state, through regular
inspection of premises and computerisation of
medical and health-related business.
He said: "We are in the middle of prosecuting. But,
fortunately or unfortunately, they have asked for
out-of-court settlement. We are hoping to ensure
that we pursue them to a logical conclusion.
"The prosecution is to act as deterrent for others.
We are going to prosecute where we feel there is a
criminal activity to send a message to others. They
are killing people and definitely some people are
going to face sanction.
On the planned mass burial for unclaimed corpses,
Soyinka said the exercise was long overdue.
He added that though he could not give the exact
number of unclaimed corpses in various public
hospitals in the state.
Soyinka said: "The answer is, yes, we are going to
do mass burial, but we are going to do it properly."
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