Babagana Zulum, Borno state
governor, did not meet any doctor on duty when he paid an unscheduled visit to
some hospitals in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Tuesday.
The governor was said to have
visited the hospitals around 1am to inspect the condition of patients and the
facilities.
At the Umaru Shehu Ultra-Modern
Hospital, Zulum was said to have been shocked as he did not meet any medical
doctor on duty.
“When the governor made a phone
call to about 10 doctors on duty to ask why they were absent, none picked the
calls,” a government official said.
The hospital with about 135
medical staff only had 10 nurses on duty, while the 19 resident doctors were
nowhere to be found.
Zulum was said to have expressed
dissatisfaction at the poor service delivery to the patients he met at the
state medical facilities.
At the state specialists’
hospital, a few doctors were available at 2am when the governor visited.
The governor’s unscheduled visit
was said to have caused panic among medical workers in the state as the chief
medical director of the Umaru Shehu Ultra-Modern Hospital was reportedly
queried over the absence of doctors on duty.
A MOVE TOWARDS CIVIL SERVICE
REFORM?
During his campaign, the governor
had said he would not condone indiscipline, especially in the state civil
service.
After his inauguration in May,
the governor embarked on a tour of the state secretariat and met three out of
12,000 workers on duty.
“I came to the secretariat at
about 8:30am, the secretariat contains almost 12,000 staff unfortunately not
more than 3 staff were on ground, at about 9:45am only 135 resumed office,” the
governor had said.
A STATE IN HEALTH CRISIS
Borno, the epicentre of the Boko
Haram insurgency, has been battling with health crisis ranging from cholera
outbreak to malnutrition and malaria.
According to the United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Maiduguri hosts
more than one million internally displaced people (IDPs) with inadequate access
to healthcare delivery.
A 2018 United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF) report on the cholera outbreak in the state estimates that 7
million people need health assistance and 60% of health facilities are not
performing at an optimal level.
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