Gbenro Adesina
The Management of the University College Hospital (UCH) has taken necessary actions to beef up security around the hospital to prevent attacks by hoodlums operating in the Mokola-Sabo axis in Ibadan.
The Head of Public Relations Unit of the hospital, Toye Akinrinola, who acknowledged, in a statement, that the hospital management has got wind of planned attacks urged the members of the hospital community that adequate measures have been put in place by security agencies to forestall any such attack.
The statement reads in part: “Our attention has been drawn to the plans by suspected hoodlums to attack the University College Hospital, Ibadan. This is also as the Federal Ministry of Health has alerted all teaching hospitals, federal medical centres, specialist hospitals and other tertiary hospitals in Nigeria of the plans to attack them. Consequently, the Minister has directed all CMDs and MDs to beef up security around their facilities”.
“We at UCH have taken bold steps to ensure the safety of lives and property within the Hospital. Very early this morning, the CMD, Professor Jesse Abiodun Otegbayo called Excellency the Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde to brief him on the development. The governor assured the CMD that adequate security measures will be put in place to protect the UCH and other health Institutions in the state”.
He concluded, “Also, the CMD has called on the heads of all security agencies to provide security support to UCH, and to which we have received positive responses. The CMD, therefore, wishes to assure the staff, students and patients in the Hospital that they are safe, as well as their properties. He has urged everyone to be conscious of their environment and take measures to ensure the security of their properties”.
