The Kano State Hospital Management Board has sacked all duty attendants in the Maternity unit of the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital (MMSH) for sending patients away or referring them unnecessarily.
The public relations officer of the Board Samira Suleiman disclosed this in a statement sent to GLOBAL TRACKER.
According to the statement, the executive secretary of the board Dr. Mansur Mudi Nagoda has condemned in totality how a couple of patients were either sent away or referred by the staff of the maternity unit on the account that there is no water in the theatre and labour room.
According to him, “We went round together with the Drs and nurses, there was water dropping into the well behind, as well as in the tap in front of the theater, in addition to the two tanks placed in the department as contingencies.”
He further said that the boaster he instructed to be installed was removed adding that no synergy between the department of O&G and the management of the facility. The staff in the unit were naive and shying away from surgeries due to flimsy excuses, failing to understand the gravity of what inflictions it might cause.
The Executive Secretary
quickly summoned the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the facility, and took the names of All on evening duty, including the maintenance staff With the intent of bringing the perpetrators to book.
According to Samira, the instant actions taken include sacking all the attendants on duty in the Labour and admission rooms as well as serving the doctors on duty with a caution notice.
Dr. Nagoda explained that this time around HMB will not spare anyone wanting, and no one has the mandate to send patients away as a result of simple logistics, additional options have been made available, while nurses, Drs, and attendants are all on the ground adding that this incident is viewed as an act of sabotage.