NO fewer than 20 illegal private hospitals and maternity centres have been sealed in different areas of Delta State in the ongoing clampdown on health facilities operating below standard and without due authorisation.
Their state Ministry of Health task force had been combing the nooks and crannies of the state in the past seven days to ascertain that the health facilities were operating under due process and manned with unqualified personnel.
Those sealed were situated in Asaba, the state capital; Ibusa, Okwe, Agbor which had to date been visited by the duty force team led by Dr. Alfred Ebiakofa. The team went by having an ambulance to evacuate some patients from among the sealed private hospitals at Agbor to the Agbor central hospital for proper attention.
