Security topmost on our agenda —UCH

UNIVERSITY College Hospital said the security of lives and property in the hospital is topmost in its agenda hence  the training of its 85 newly recruited security personnel at the hospital.

Professor Abiodun Otegbayo, UCH’s Chief Medical Director, declaring open five-day training for 85 security personnel newly employed at the hospital, stated that the whole nation is under security threat, and as such, the hospital is not an exemption.

He said although the hospital since his tenure in the office started had recorded no major security threat, the hospital was just being proactive by training its security personnel.

He declared, “We have not had any major security threat, but they say that prevention is better and cheaper than cure. We do not want to wait until some incidents that occurred earlier on or that is occurring in other places to occur here before we start thinking of training our personnel to be professional.”

Professor Otegbayo charged the security operatives to always be courteous and professional in all their dealing at the hospital.

He declared: “Majority of our clients in the hospital are  patients and they are already in distress; even their relations are distressed. So the best to do is to talk to them gently and respectfully while not compromising on your professional duty. If you cannot relieve their problem or issues, please do not add to it.”

Chairman, Nostalgia Consult limited, the training firm, General Solomon Baba Ibrahim,  said even the few burglary cases at the hospital would be reduced to the barest minimum through the training.

Aside from the training, the consult, he said help the hospital identify areas it needs to improve on to ensure its security as well as follow up its trainees to ensure they keep to what they had learnt.