The Management of Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Keffi, has debunked allegations on social media that patients are made to buy fuel before operations are carried out on them.
Esther Bature, Head, Public Relations and Protocol Unit of the Centre, debunked the allegation in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
Miss Bature said that the management of the hospital recently became aware of posts on social media, specifically Facebook, alleging that whenever there was power outage, patients were made to buy petrol for operations to be carried out on them.
According to Esther, the allegation is untrue, malicious and misleading.
She explained that a recent rainstorm that wreaked havoc in Keffi and its environs affected power lines.
“However, the medical centre made use of its contingency plans in terms of power supply and did not at any point mandate patients to buy fuel before attending to them.
“Due to the effect of that rainstorm, power was disrupted for more than 48 hours. The centre was not an exception.
“The hospital has solar power system, petrol and diesel generators to augment public power supply at critical areas of the hospital like the Theatre, Radiology, Intensive Care Unit among others.
“So, at no time was any patient asked to go and buy fuel before being attended to.
“The peddlers of such rumours must be bent on discrediting the efforts that the current management is putting to make healthcare experience in the centre pleasurable,” she said.
Bature added that the medical centre was committed to rendering the best of services to humanity as its core mandates.
“It is to this end that we implore everyone, especially the good friends of the hospital to walk into the facility, ask questions for clarity and even report their experiences to the management,” she said.
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