Oshiomhole reads riot act to doctors

By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE
BENIN—EDO State governor, Comarade Adams Oshiomhole, has frowned on the attitude to duties of doctors in the employ of the state, warning that government would not hesitate to dismiss any found wanting.
He gave the warning yesterday at Central Hospital, Benin City, when he paid an unscheduled visit to the hospital.
He emphasized that hospitals in the state were not supposed to be death, but healing centres.
He reminded the doctors that they were trained to save lives, but lamented that they were, instead, presiding over avoidable deaths due to negligence.
He said: “We will dismiss any doctor who is not ready to work.
“Are we supposed to beg doctors to come to work?   It is a contract, it is either you service it and you keep it or you don’t and you go.
“We don’t have all the resources we need. The little that we have we don’t value. If we don’t have a hospital, we should be able to tell our people so that they can go to herbalists.
“But when you put a sign board that there is a hospital and you go there and there is no doctor, the general impression is that it does not matter.
“When they don’t see a doctor in the hospital, they will now go to private hospitals.”
“Our people are already dying of negligence, so I am not bothered about threat of strike.”
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