It is because of these challenges therefore that both staff, patients and members of the host community of the hospital are calling on the President to eschew any form of sentiments in the appointment of the Chief Medical Director.
A patient who gave her name as Rabiatu Yunusa told Education Monitor that the hospital needs a strong and disciplined leader who will instill discipline in doctors and nurses who are found of abusing their calling by neglecting their life-saving role by abandoning patients and paying more attention only to their private hospitals, where they make more money.
All contenders of the top position of the University’s Teaching Hospital have so far been interviewed and are awaiting decision of the president The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital which is facing different kinds of challenges ranging from gross underfunding by Federal Government and mismanagement of the meager internally generated resources, lack of maintenance of the Hospital’s environment which has made it one of the most unclean and clumsiest hospitals in the country, is no doubt in dire need of a selfless Chief Medical Director who will work hard to turn it around and make it a befitting teaching hospital.
It is because of these challenges therefore that both staff, patients and members of the host community of the hospital are calling on the President to eschew any form of sentiments in the appointment of the Chief Medical Director.
A patient who gave her name as Rabiatu Yunusa told Education Monitor that the hospital needs a strong and disciplined leader who will instill discipline in doctors and nurses who are found of abusing their calling by neglecting their life-saving role by abandoning patients and paying more attention only to their private hospitals, where they make more money.
The Director of Medical Centre of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and Deputy Provost of the Institution’s school of Medical Sciences, Professor Hamidu Ahmed Omdugas and three others are jostling for the exalted position of ABU’s Teaching Hospital, Shika-Zaria. Other contenders for the position of the Chief Medical Director include the Immediate Past Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Bakari Adamu Girei, immediate Past Dean of Students Affairs of the University, Professor Mohammed Sani Shehu.
All contenders of the top position of the University’s Teaching Hospital have so far been interviewed and are awaiting decision of the president The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital which is facing different kinds of challenges ranging from gross underfunding by Federal Government and mismanagement of the meager internally generated resources, lack of maintenance of the Hospital’s environment which has made it one of the most unclean and clumsiest hospitals in the country, is no doubt in dire need of a selfless Chief Medical Director who will work hard to turn it around and make it a befitting teaching hospital.
It is because of these challenges therefore that both staff, patients and members of the host community of the hospital are calling on the President to eschew any form of sentiments in the appointment of the Chief Medical Director.
A patient who gave her name as Rabiatu Yunusa told Education Monitor that the hospital needs a strong and disciplined leader who will instill discipline in doctors and nurses who are found of abusing their calling by neglecting their life-saving role by abandoning patients and paying more attention only to their private hospitals, where they make more money. By Mike Usman
The Director of Medical Centre of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and Deputy Provost of the Institution’s school of Medical Sciences, Professor Hamidu Ahmed Omdugas and three others are jostling for the exalted position of ABU’s Teaching Hospital, Shika-Zaria. Other contenders for the position of the Chief Medical Director include the Immediate Past Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Bakari Adamu Girei, immediate Past Dean of Students Affairs of the University, Professor Mohammed Sani Shehu.
All contenders of the top position of the University’s Teaching Hospital have so far been interviewed and are awaiting decision of the president The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital which is facing different kinds of challenges ranging from gross underfunding by Federal Government and mismanagement of the meager internally generated resources, lack of maintenance of the Hospital’s environment which has made it one of the most unclean and clumsiest hospitals in the country, is no doubt in dire need of a selfless Chief Medical Director who will work hard to turn it around and make it a befitting teaching hospital.
It is because of these challenges therefore that both staff, patients and members of the host community of the hospital are calling on the President to eschew any form of sentiments in the appointment of the Chief Medical Director.
A patient who gave her name as Rabiatu Yunusa told Education Monitor that the hospital needs a strong and disciplined leader who will instill discipline in doctors and nurses who are found of abusing their calling by neglecting their life-saving role by abandoning patients and paying more attention only to their private hospitals, where they make more money.