Borno Gov Sneaks
Borno Gov Sneaks Into Hospitals Amidst Absentee Doctors
‘on call’
Medical Doctors in Borno state are in for trouble as Governor
Babagana Zulum sneaked into notable hospitals in Maiduguri
metropolis to meet Doctors who are supposed to be on call
absent.
The Governor showed up at 2am at the State Specialist and Umaru
Shehu hospitals, both in Maiduguri. The Governor found out that
none of the medical doctors on duty were available at Umaru Shehu
Hospital even as one of the doctors who reside within the
hospital’s staff quarters did not respond to several telephone
calls placed on his numbers on the Governor’s instruction.
Governor Zulum had on arrival gone round all wards where he met
on ground, 10 nurses out of the 135 working at the hospital while
none of the 19 resident doctors including two of those said to be
‘on call’ were around.
The Governor ordered the hospital’s Medical Director be called
while he promised disciplinary action against absentee Doctors. He
wondered what could have been the situation if any person or
admitted patients had emergency which required the urgency of
medical doctors during the night.
Thirty minutes earlier (1:30am), Professor Zulum had paid
similar surprise visit to the state specialist hospital also in
Maiduguri. While going round the emergency, maternity, male and
female surgical wards, paediatric and orthopedic wards, the
Governor found in the hospital, all the four resident doctors on
call alongside some nurses and pharmacists.
It would be recalled that since coming into office in May,
Governor Zulum had paid visit the state secretariat at 8am during
which he trapped absentee and late coming workers. He had paid
similar visits to schools during class hours, water treatment plans
at weekends and other public establishments that provide essential
services.
By PRNigeria