The Rivers State Government has sealed Divine Love Hospital for operating illegally in Rumuodara, axis of Okporo road, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Port Harcourt.
The doctor running the hospital was identified as Cornelius Alozie.
Speaking to journalists on Sunday after sealing the hospital, the Director Medical Services, Rivers State Ministry of Health, Dr Wachukwu Vincent said the team from the Ministry met a dead patient from a failed apendicetomy operation in the hospital.
Describing the hospital as an environment unfit to be called a maternity home, Wachukwu said the owner of the facility will be prosecuted, adding that the cause of the death of the patient will be investigated.
He warned that the anti-quackery committee of the Ministry will soon be inaugurated by the state government to clamp down on such facilities.
“We had an information that there is an illegal hospital operating in this area.
“Our men came and actually identified that it was true and real.
“Getting here, they met a corpse of a patient that had apendiceptomy in an environment you can’t call a maternity home, not to talk of calling it a hospital.
“All of us know that our present governor, Siminalayi Fubara has the health of Rivers people at heart, and so he has directed that this type of place should not operate and that is why we are here to seal the place.
“We’re going to prosecute the so called owner of the hospital. We will investigate fully, and find out the immediate and remote causes of the death of the patient.
“And if he’s found culpable, he will be prosecuted,” he said.
Wachukwu added, “Every other person that is involved in activities like this, should desist henceforth because we are coming for them.
“The anti-quackery committee will soon be inaugurated and then all the necessary support will be given to them by the state government to fish out facilities like this in the nooks and crannies of the state, to make sure that these things don’t happen again.”
