In 2018 FG gave each teaching hospital N300 Million, Federal Medical Centres N120 Million, while each fistula centre received N120 Million to improve healthcare delivery. Likewise in 2020, FG budgeted N126bn for infrastructure upgrade in the tertiary hospitals.
It also paid N4.5bn to cover hazard & inducement allowances for d month of April & May for all d doctors.
This is just to say FG has not failed in its responsibility to fund tertiary hospitals. It is not FG's responsibility to fund primary & secondary hospitals owned by states.
This is just to say FG has not failed in its responsibility to fund tertiary hospitals. It is not FG's responsibility to fund primary & secondary hospitals owned by states.
Buhari is not the problem.
Blame hospital management for d condition you find tertiary hospitals. Blame governors for d decay in state hospitals. It is when d state hospitals fail to discharge their own duties that d tertiary hospitals are saddled with patients that.....
Blame hospital management for d condition you find tertiary hospitals. Blame governors for d decay in state hospitals. It is when d state hospitals fail to discharge their own duties that d tertiary hospitals are saddled with patients that.....
ordinarily are meant to be treated in primary health centers. Treating malaria, typhoid and other tropical diseases should ideally be handled at local levels.
Now instead of buying vital equipments and medicines in tertiary hospitals,the CMDs want to live large.
Now instead of buying vital equipments and medicines in tertiary hospitals,the CMDs want to live large.
They buy SUVs and share the rest of the money to set up their own private hospitals. Some units in ABU teaching hospital Shika use" I pass my neighbor"generator to provide electricity. Aminu Kano teaching hospital does not have functioning X-ray or echo machines.
In OAU teaching hospital, Ile-Ife you will be sent to a laboratory in far away Ado-Ekiti for tests that should ordinarily be provided by the teaching hospital. It is the same story everywhere.
When government provides laboratory equipments,the personnel run it down and direct patients to their private hospitals.
Non functioning equipments or their absence are squarely the problem of hospital management.
Non functioning equipments or their absence are squarely the problem of hospital management.
But for all our self-inflicted woes, there is one man to blame, because he occupies the office of the president. The leader has his faults but we are also terrible citizens.
©Aliyu Nuhu
©Aliyu Nuhu
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