Edo shuts unregistered hospital

The Edo State Healthcare Regulation and Monitoring Agency has ordered the immediate closure of Jess Royal Hospital in Benin after discovering that the facility had operated for more than 10 years without statutory registration. This was disclosed in a statement shared by the state government on Facebook on Saturday, stating that the hospital was neither registered with the Edo State Ministry of Health nor currently registered with EDOHERMA.

The discovery was made during a monitoring exercise at an orphanage located in the same building as the hospital. The hospital owner informed the agency that he was a member of the Association of Nigerian Private Medical Practitioners, but Urhoghide-Edigin clarified that membership did not amount to statutory registration or authorisation to operate a healthcare facility in the state.

EDOHERMA subsequently directed the hospital to stop all medical operations immediately and gave it two weeks to begin the official registration process and correct the identified deficiencies.

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