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  • 50 women to benefit from free VVF surgery in Plateau

    No fewer than 50 women are to benefit from free Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF) in Mangu Local Government of Plateau.

    Dr Edmond Banwat, Chief Medical Director (CMD), Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), disclosed this on Thursday in Mangu during a courtesy visit on the council chairman, Mr. Lawrence Danat.

    Banwat said that the programme would be jointly organised by some U.S.-based agencies and JUTH to provide the free surgeries in Gindiri.

    He called for assistance of the LGA in the provision of security and accommodation for the visiting surgeons, ahead of the two-week programme scheduled for end of March.

    “This free medical outreach that JUTH and some agencies in the U.S. will give to the women in Mangu is part of our design and magnanimity to give succour to people in dire need.

    “Health is wealth as they say, so we intend to bestow this wealth upon the people, many of who find it difficult to treat their selves of this disease which comes as a result of some factors.

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    “VVF can be caused by early marriage among girls, especially during child birth, and usually causes serious embarrassment to the patient due to uncontrollable urine flow.

    “VVF surgery costs up to N200, 000 and we all know that in the country’s present economic state, raising such an amount is not easy.

    “It is therefore based on this that JUTH in conjunction with some medical experts from the U.S., decided to reach out to some of these victims with this gesture.

    “We are in your office to synergise with your council in the area of security and accommodation for the expatriates coming all the way from America,’’ the CMD said.

    Responding, the council chairman pledged to synergise with them to ensure success of the programme in his domain.

    He described the gesture as timely and encouraging; assuring that his office would to give 100 per cent support to the project.

     

     

     

  • JUTH gets 30-day ultimatum to implement court ruling

    The National Industrial Court (NIC) has given the management of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) a 30-day ultimatum to implement the ruling specifying a separate department for Medical Laboratory Scientists.

    Justice Nkechi Esewe, at the weekend, ordered JUTH’s management to see the medical laboratory scientists as distinct professionals.

    She also ordered government hospitals to create a separate department for medical laboratory scientists and give them free hand to practice.

    This followed failure of JUTH’s top management staff to appear in court while the case lasted.

    Justice Esewe noted that the court could have ordered that JUTH’s management be jailed but it considered its status in the society and how the action will affect the public.

    She, however, warned that the court will be forced to send JUTH’s management to prison if it, at the expiration of the 30 days, fails to implement the court’s pronouncement.

    In the ruling between laboratory scientists and five hospitals, Justice Esewe reiterated that the laboratory scientists be allowed to discharge their duties freely as a distinct department without being directed by a doctor.

    The Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki; University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozala; Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, National Othodepedic Hospital, Enugu and Parklin Hospital, Enugu, are listed as respondents.

    Counsel to the hospitals, Oguchukwu Nwogu, said: “In 2013, the court made several orders which borders on the right of the applicants, that they be accorded their respect as a separate profession in the health sector. But some hospitals were non-chalant about the ruling.

    “That prompted us to approach the court to interpret its judgment. The court has affirmed its position once more that the 2013 judgment cuts across the entire health sector and affects all Federal Government-owned hospitals.

    “We will wait to see what the respondents will do. If they do not do what is expected of them, we will know the next step to take.”

  • Doctors withdraw services at JUTH

    Resident doctors at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) have withdrawn their services, following the failure of the management to implement the agreements that border on their welfare.

    The doctors, who withdrew their services since June 8, insisted that they would not resume work until the management met their demands contained in the pending agreements.

    The Chairman of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), JUTH chapter, Dr. Joseph Nankat, said top on the list of their demands was the issue of skipping, a right the hospital management continued to deny the doctors.

    He said: “JUTH management’s refusal to comply with Federal Government’s directive for the ‘implementation of skipping for doctors’ is very key among our demands.”

    In the notice of strike by NARD dated June 8, issued by the Chairman, Joseph I. Nankat and Secretary, Kumtap Y. Cashmir, they noted that doctors in JUTH are being denied ‘skipping’ even when “non-doctors enjoy this privilege among others.”

    They said their members “are working under difficult conditions in JUTH because of lack of consumables, such as hand gloves and some emergency drugs, such as oxytocin.”

    NARD decried the non- payment of training allowances to resident doctors, shortage of house officers and under payment of the few available ones, saying these have led to many moving out of JUTH.

    Among their four-point demands are the resumption of “skipping “ payment, just as non-doctors have been benefiting as well as the provision of essential consumables in the hospital.

    “The management is owing us outstanding training allowances. It has failed to employ house officers and refused payment of their correct entitlements. We can’t work under such condition,” Dr. Nankat said.

  • Lab scientists flay victimisation by teaching hospitals

    Lab scientists flay victimisation by teaching hospitals

    Laboratory scientists in teaching hospitals have alleged undue victimisation by medical directors of the institutions.

    They particularly said the managements of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), Federal Medical Centre Ido Ekiti and Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital Ogbomosho have engaged in flagrant abuses of their colleagues.

    The President of Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN), Dr Godswill Okara, told reporters in Jos yesterday that authorities of the teaching hospitals have been persecuting their members.

    He said: “Managements of these hospitals have developed a culture of lawlessness, arbitrariness, impunity and incessant harassment of workers in the health sector for no justifiable reasons.”

    He specifically accused JUTH of refusing to reinstate seven of its members unjustly sacked by the Professor Edmund Banwat-led management despite a court judgment restraining it from terminating or suspending them.

    Okara explained: “We have noticed the illegal demotion, punitive posting and humiliation of confirmed medical laboratory scientists by the management of the Federal Medical Centre, Ido Ekiti and the management of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital Ogbomosho without recourse to public service rules and procedures.”

    Such acts of provocation and intimidation, Okara said, portend danger to the healthcare industry, law and order and members of the public

    He noted that the politicisation of the headship of hospitals through Decree 10 of 1985 as the root of the decay and decline in the health sector.

    According to him, the only way to prevent the situation from degenerating further is to professionalise the management of hospitals like in the 1950s.

     

     

     

    While calling on the federal Government to call the authorities of teaching hospitals to order, the AMLSN President said: “The time is now for government, professionals and other stakeholders to halt the decline in the health sector occasioned by the lawless conduct of the management of hospitals.”