The Chief Medical Director of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ABTHUTH) Bauchi, Dr Mohammed Alkali, has said that the hospital is not operating as a teaching hospital due to some challenges.
He stated this at the Yankari Games Reserve while speaking during a one-day retreat organised for the hospital’s principal staff.
He said the hospital was still facing challenges in spite of its upgrade from a specialist hospital to a teaching hospital in 2008.
Dr. Alkali pointed out that the challenges were compounded because most of the staff were from different backgrounds adding that they needed to fully blend, develop a standard and have unified identity for the hospital to excel. The CMD lamented that the staff of the hospital were yet to change and adopt a more dedicated, focused direction and professionalism required to make the hospital operate in tandem with its status.
“We must imbibe the change mantra of the present administration. We must, therefore, develop a change culture that will tally with the norms of the new administration. We must set a pace that new comers into the hospital will imbibe to enable us transform from old ways of doing things,” he said.
He urged the participants to discuss the issues and challenges facing the hospital especially as regards its operation as a teaching hospital.
The Area Manager, Bauchi Area Office of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Alhaji Yahaya Manu, called on management of the hospital to appoint an industrial relations officer who would mediate on labour matters, saying that would help in issues affecting the relationship between management and workers of the hospital.
By: Balarabe Alkassim, Bauchi
Daily Trust News
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