The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has debunked rumours that the Bola Tinubu Health and Diagnostic Centre sited in the hospital is owned by President Bola Tinubu.
In a statement on Saturday, LASUTH Chief Medical Director, Prof. Tokunbo Fabamwo said that the clarification was necessary as some social media posts had linked the ownership of the facility to the President, with allegations that human resources practices in the facility are anti-Yoruba.
The statement read: “To start with, the Nigerian president doesn’t own the facility. It is a public-private venture with a memorandum of understanding signed by private entrepreneurs with the Lagos State Ministries of Health and Justice.
“It happens to be named after the Nigerian president but hey, so are so many other facilities named after eminent Nigerians who do not necessarily own them.
“The allegation of anti-Yoruba practices is as ludicrous as they come. It does not and cannot happen.
“The headship of this radiological and laboratory facility as well as the principal officers are all Yoruba.
“Needless to say that though competence, knowledge and skills are paramount in recruiting manpower to a high-tech facility like that, there is no deliberate policy against Yoruba”.
Fabamwo noted that the involvement of LASUTH in the facility did not extend beyond providing premises and a building for its operations, as well as the patient load.
“Although LASUTH has an oversight function on the clinical operations of the facility, it does not nor is it even expected to get involved in the recruitment processes.
“However, that said, any blatant policy against Yoruba would definitely have attracted the attention of LASUTH management and would have been characteristically dealt with in a decisive manner”, he said.
The CMD advised the public to disregard the writer of the fictional piece, noting that the real objective of publishing the odious piece needs to be subjected to scrutiny.
The BT Health and Diagnostic Centre is a public-private partnership between PPC Limited and the Lagos State Government.
PPC Limited is affiliated with Philips Medical System, a global leader in providing clinical management and diagnostic technology, and has been successful in transferring the latest technology to the healthcare industry in Nigeria.
