SAN FRANCISCO, June 04, (THEWILL) – Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has suspended the entire staff of an hospital in the state for allegedly abandoning their duty posts.
The staff on suspension include resident medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and lab technicians.
The governor was said to have paid an unscheduled visit to the hospital in Ngala, a town sharing a border with the Cameroon Republic, but the entire staff under the government payroll were absent.
The governor was reportedly furious that the entire staff, despite receiving government salaries, abandoned the hospital to an International non-governmental organisation, fhi360, to manage hundreds of patients, a majority of whom are Internally Displaced Persons and residents of Ngala.
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The governor expressed his disappointment finding out that despite high turnout of patients, no government paid staff, from doctors down to clerical staff, was at the hospital at 11am.
He said, “This is a General Hospital belonging to Borno State Government, unfortunately, there is no single state government staff here to attend to all these patients, and we promptly pay all their salaries.
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“These humanitarian workers from the iNGO (fhi360) are supposed to complement the state Government staff but not to completely take over the Hospital.
“I am directing the Borno State Hospitals Management Board, if there is any staff on the payroll of this hospital, to immediately suspend all the workers on the government payroll.
“I will be back to this hospital, hoping to see the opposite of what I saw today.”
