Chairman, committee of Chief Medical Directors of Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria, Prof. Thomas Agan, on Wednesday appealed to resident doctors to exercise patience over the delay in the payment of their sponsorship allowances.
This is just as he decried the slow pace of infrastructural development in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH).
Agan, in an interview session with newsmen in Calabar, said no budgetary provision was made to cater for the sponsorship allowance of resident doctors.
He disclosed that before now, the sponsorship allowances of the affected doctors were drawn from personnel allocation, but were later halted.According to Agan, who is also the Chief Medical Director, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), ” When you talk of sponsorship, there hasn’t been any budgetary provision for sponsorship.
“At a time, we were paying sponsorship from personnel allocation, but we were stopped. For now, we owe resident doctors their sponsorship allowance and we are appealing to them to exercise some patience that by God’s grace the government will take into consideration some of these things.” While expressing reservation over the high cost of running a teaching hospital in Nigeria, Prof Agan attributed the slow pace of infrastructural development in the UCTH to the dwindling economy.
Infrastructure-wise, he said since the teaching hospital relocated to its permanent site, she had not been able to consolidate on what was met on ground due to paucity of funds.
“When you talk about infrastructural development, it has been very slow because of the dwindling economy. The recession is affecting every nooks and crannies of this country.
“Now, this hospital was constructed in 1977 and somewhere along the line it became abandoned and then hoodlums removed the glasses, roofs and everything. Well, we have moved in, but it is not possible do what we should do. We couldn’t develop because you can not give what you don’t have.
“Beside infrastructure, electricity bill is one of the greatest challenges. In fact, we pay almost six million naira (N6million) monthly. And in the absence of public power supply, the generators are functioning very well. We have 515 KVA generator which is mounted inside the laboratory and it can supply light to the entire hospital. Just that I don’t like them to do that because it can break down easily.
“We also have a 500 KVA generator that is mounted at the theatre which supplies light to the theatre and some parts of the hospital”, Agan said.
The CMD, however, assured the general public that despite the current challenges, tertiary hospitals in Nigeria would not fail to perform her statutory duties, at all times.
He adviced Nigerians not to hesitate to make a direct complain to his office or through the SERVICOM office whenever they were not satisfied with any service rendered in the teaching hospital.
By: Lanre Arotimi, Calabar
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