Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service (LSBTS) has shut down a private Hospital located at Ago-Okota in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of the State for engaging in unhealthy and unwholesome practice of collecting and transfusing unscreened and unlabelled blood to unsuspecting patients.
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| Private hospital sealed by Lagos State Government for transfusing unscreened blood. Photo: @followlasg |
The Executive Secretary of the LSBTS. Dr. Bodunrin Osikomaiya, who disclosed this at the weekend, said that the health facility was sealed by LSBTS and the State Health Facilities Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) following a tip-off by a concerned citizen.
“A concerned citizen had reached out to us to report the unwholesome practices of the facility. Following the tip-off, and after thorough investigations, the enforcement teams of LSBTS and HEFAMAA, during their joint monitoring exercise in the area, visited the facility and confirmed to be true, the unwholesome, unprofessional and unethical medical practices and conduct of the hospital management”, she revealed.
Osikomaiya added that the facility was shut for contravening the blood transfusion service law and for their unethical and unprofessional medical practice as well as putting the lives of unsuspecting citizens at risk.
Osikomaiya added that the facility was shut for contravening the blood transfusion service law and for their unethical and unprofessional medical practice as well as putting the lives of unsuspecting citizens at risk.
In her words, “This facility was sealed for contravening the provision of the Blood Transfusion Service Law, specifically, Law 10, Item 31 which states that no person within Lagos State shall transfuse blood into a patient unless such blood has been screened, tested, labelled by the state blood transfusion committee, and found to be negative for all transmissible diseases including HIV I and II, Hepatitis B and C, Syphilis and any other disease as may be deemed necessary by LSBTS”.
She said: “The Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service was established with a mandate to provide safe blood and blood products for all who require it in accredited health facilities. This mandate is actualised through the active recruitment of voluntary blood donors, screening of every unit of blood for transfusion-transmissible infection, efficient processing of blood, and appropriate clinical use of blood”.
“In ensuring that only safe blood is transfused in the State, the LSBTS routinely monitors all private and public blood banks, blood donation centres, facilities that transfuse blood and blood products, screening centres and blood logistics companies in the state to ensure compliance with the law. In addition, it ensures that all blood and blood products transfused in the state is screened by Lagos State accredited partners using WHO-certified methods and labelled with the State Blood Certification logo”, she added. lagosstate.gov.ng
