EDOHERMA targets reopened sealed facilities, intensifies anti-quackery crackdown

By Ighomuaye Lucky, Benin
The Edo State Healthcare Regulation and Monitoring Agency (EDOHERMA) has announced a fresh enforcement exercise targeting health facilities that have resumed operations despite being sealed for regulatory violations, warning that defiant operators risk arrest and prosecution.
The Chief Executive Officer of the agency, Adesuwa Urhoghide-Edigin, disclosed this in an interview, saying the exercise would commence before the end of the week as part of efforts to strengthen healthcare regulation and protect patients across the state.
She explained that facilities are usually given verbal and written warnings before closure, but that operators who disregard sealin...