Sola POPOOLA
The Chief Medical Director , Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH), Professor Kayode Olabanji has urged members of the public to disregard an alleged false publication by a certain online platform about the institution .
In a statement made available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti , Professor Olabanji said the alleged spurious allegations raised in the poorly scripted piece was a confirmation of the desperation of the writer and his paymasters ,not only to misinformation ,but misrepresent the health institution, its management and by extension, governor Biodun Oyebanji.
While dismissing the contents of the publications as the figment of the imagination of the writer,the CMD hinted that the management may consider legal action to right the alleged wrong.
According to him, the said publications were not only full of errors and misconceived pictures, which suggested the job of a paid hatchet man.
He said “the mood in the Hospital is totally different from what has been painted.The staff are full of appreciation for His Excellency the Governor,
“I am constrained to write this letter to you concerning a news item published first online,and then in prints…Dec 15,2023 -Jan.15, 2024, titled ‘EKSUTH:A Teaching Hospital In Distress -Inside Story’…The story was heavily prejudiced, laced with falsification and twisted information.
“Moreover, the print was full of errors and misrepresentations. In spite of honest, verifiable explanations, the writer went ahead to paint his misconceived pictures, which one can only interpret as the job of a paid hatchet man. Some of the allegations are libelous.
“The mood in the Hospital is totally different from what has been painted.The staff are full of appreciation for His Excellency the Governor, who has been attending to all issues raised with him.However the write-up has painted the Government in bad light,which didn’t reflect the love and respect that the staff have for the Governor.
“As an illustration that the whole article was purposely to misinform and distort issues to achieve a set objective,kindly consider the statement below.Page 5:”The mortuary is in such a sorry sight that I think the government should take a critical look at EKSUTH now and save the people from avoidable deaths”.
Sir,how can mortuary where dead bodies are kept cause the death of the corpses’being put there?What concerns mortuary with avoidable deaths? Patients have no business with, and do not visit mortuary, which only goes to illustrate the depth of bias in the story, or a crass ignorance…The institution may also seek other lawful ways of seeking redress against him and his newspaper.”it stated .
It was a hatchet job. Its shocking to see the extent to which people will go to do mischief. How much could the miscreant have bn paid?