The new Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, Prof Henry Ugboma, has warned all staff members of the hospital to maintain integrity and professionalism in the discharge of their duties, warning that anyone caught involving in any form of sharp practices would be sacked.
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Ugboma, who gave the warning in Port Harcourt, yesterday during his maiden briefing, he uncovered a money sapping monster which he said has drained millions of naira generated in the health institution. The Chief Medical Director, disclosed that the Cashless System Service, CSS, introduced for patients by the management of the institution was energising misappropriation of fund.
He said upon the discovery that he closed the system and reverted to the usual physical payment, stating that the manual payment has helped the hospital to generate more fund, adding that the CSS has affected UPTH heavily.
He said: “I appreciate President Muhammadu Buhari for this appointment. As the Chief Executive of this teaching hospital, I wish to, on behalf of the management and staff assure members of the public that their concern and complaints are already receiving management’s serious attention.
“I have ordered the immediate suspension of the Cashless Payment System introduced nearly three years ago, to enable an evaluation of critical aspects of the payment mode and so members of the public will for now, pay cash for service, while service charges are also being reviewed downwards ahead of a comprehensive pocket friendly, swift response to patient system to be unveiled in a few months’ time.
“I suspended the cashless system because when I came and did a review of the system we discovered that the hospital is losing millions through it. When we brought direct payment we are generating more fund. We will bring a new technology that will checkmate the system before we can restore it.”
He called on families that have abandoned remains of their relations at the UPTH mortuary for more than two years to urgently come to claim theirs, warning that the hospital would conduct mass burial for corpses that were not evacuated in two weeks’ time.
“Most corpses have been abandoned in our mortuary for many years. We have been using our resources in taking care of them. He have made announcement that people who have corpses that have stayed for more than three years, should come and evacuate them.
“We are giving the grace of two weeks for their owners to come and pick them else we will carry out mass burial for all the corpses”.
By: Blessing Ibunge, Port Harcourt
The Authority News
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