Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has suspended all resident medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians and other staff at the General Hospital in Ngala town.
The suspension came after Zulum’s unscheduled visit on Monday morning and he found out that the staff had abandoned the hospital to an International non-governmental Organisation, fhi360, which was managing hundreds of patients, majority of them IDPs and residents.
Ngala town is the headquarter of Ngala Local Government Area in central part of Borno State. The border town is within an international land route into Cameroon, Chad, Sudan and Central Africa.
Liberated from Boko Haram’s control in 2015, Ngala is currently populated by thousands of returnees, many of whom are internally displaced persons (IDPs), forced to flee their villages and farmlands in the wake of attacks by boko haram. A good number of other residents are indigenes of the town.
Governor Zulum had in his usual style of paying surprise visits showed up at the General Hospital on Monday morning in order to find out the realities of healthcare delivery to citizens.
The governor was disappointed to find out that despite high number of of patients in the hospital, not one of the staff, from doctors down to clerical staff, was at the hospital.
Zulum was in fact received on arrival by a field coordinator of fhi360, the iNGO left in control of the hospital.
Saddened by what he found on ground, he ordered the suspension of all the staff with immediate effect.
“This is a general hospital belonging to Borno State government. Unfortunately, there is no single state government staff here to attend to all these patients, and we promptly pay all of them salaries. These humanitarian workers from the iNGO (fhi360) are supposed to complement the state government staff but not to completely take over the hospital.
“I am directing the Borno State Hospitals Management Board to immediately suspend all the workers on government payroll. I will be back to this hospital hoping to see the opposite of what I saw today,” Zulum said.
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