Quality Healthcare: Zulum Pays Unannounced Visits To Borno Hospitals | Tellwell Newspaper
Tellwell Newspaper, Abuja – Nigeria: Quality healthcare services for post-insurgency Borno State was attracting the major attention of the state governor, Babagana Umara Zulum.
The governor now pays surprise visits at night to general hospitals and primary healthcare centres to observe the quality of public services rendered there and to track down workers who do not take their jobs seriously.
He, last Monday night, showed up unannounced at the General Hospital in Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services delivery to the public.
Professor Zulum visited the hospital at 10pm, not long after arriving Bama town by road from Maiduguri.
Zulum at the General Hospital was happy that he met nurses and the medical doctor on duty, Mr Olugbenga Aina, who conducted the governor round the healthcare institution for an on-the-spot assessment of service delivery.
… Demands to know hospital’s problems
After his assessment of the General Hospital, Governor Zulum sought to know from the medical doctor and nurses, the challenges facing the hospital.
The governor observed himself that some air-conditioners and fans at the wards were not functioning while the solar system providing alternative electricity needed upgrade.
Zulum directed the hospital’s management led by the chief medical director to compile an urgent report on their immediate needs and submit to him through the state’s commissioner of health, Professor Mohammed Arab, who is in Bama with the governor.
Governor Zulum also announced automatic employment opportunities to citizens of Bama who possess medical qualifications to serve as medical doctors, nurses and pharmacists in order for them to increase the current number of medical personnel at the general hospital and primary healthcare centres.
