Borno State Governor suspends medical workers for abandoning their place of work

The Executive Governor of Borno State, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has suspended the entire staff of a public  hospital in the state for allegedly abandoning their duty posts.

The governor made this declaration when he paid an unscheduled visit to one of  the General Hospitals in the state. This particular hospital is situated in Ngala, a town sharing a border with the Cameroon Republic when he discovered that the resident doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and laboratory- technicians, all on the payroll of the government were not at their duty posts.

Reportedly, the governor was furious that despite receiving government salaries, the entire workers  of the hospital refused to report to their place of works while a number of patients were there waiting for the arrival of medical specialists.

Professor Babagana said, “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 their salaries.

“I am directing the Borno State Hospitals Management Board, if there is any staff on the payroll of this hospital, to immediately suspend all the workers on the government payroll. I will be back to this hospital, hoping to see the opposite of what I saw today.”