The Management of Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital, Lafia, Nasarawa State, says it has dismissed 10 of its staff over financial misconduct, sabotage and selling blood meant for patients.

Dr Hassan Ikrama, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lafia.

“Some of them were engaging in stealing of blood from blood bank and selling same to private hospitals and diverting money meant for the hospital.

“Some are using the facilities of the hospital to carry out investigation in the laboratory and put the money for the charges in their private pockets,” he added.

He noted that all the dismissed staff were investigated and found culpable by a committee that looked into the matter.

Ikrama said that when he was appointed as the CMD, he discovered many leakages in the finances of the facility which needed to be blocked.

“Instead of the internally generated revenue of the hospital to improve, individuals were busy diverting it for personal use, as a result, services were going down on daily basis.

“The hospital prior to my coming was lacking so many machines, had only one theatre, only 200 beds for admission, one clinic, insufficient offices for doctors.

“That was why most patients were being referred to either Jos, Federal Medical Centre Keffi or National Hospital Abuja due to lack of machines and space at the hospital,” the CMD said.

Ikrama however said that the hospital management had taken on the challenges and were able to increase the numbers of theatres to three, clinics to eight, scanning machine from one to eight.

“Others initiatives to reposition the hospital include provision of 200 additional beds, renovation of wards, toilets among others.”

He added that more technical and other specialists have been employed to strengthen services to patients patronising the facility daily.

“We have 40 permanent and other visiting consultants in different fields, over 100 Doctors apart from Nurses, Pharmacists and Laboratory Technicians, among others.

“We also acquired brand new 0pp pity scan and digital Xray machines that patients were hitherto sent to Keffi or Jos because we do not have them,” he added.

Ikrama therefore assured members of the public that the management of the hospital would do everything possible to ensure better service delivery.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pulse.ng/news/local/hospital-dismisses-10-staff-for-stealing-blood-other-offences/3cexxwg.amp

too bad

Northerner prior to now were known to be contented by nature. Well, I guess people change. Maybe, the overbearing and money mongering attitude of Ganduje and other stomach-serving northern politicians have started robbing off on them

Damnnnnn

You see Nigerians and corruption
When you see this same people lambasting our politicians about corruption ehnnnnnnnn

You see why i will always say Nigerians don't really hate corruption. They only angry with our politicians and pretending to hate corruption because they are not the one carrying out the corruption

Government should look into their parastatals, agencies, ministries and department. Too many corrupt practices

Vampires

Them dey steal blood



It is fini......

Chai! Blood of Jesus.

SMH

nothing wey person no go see

na food?

Vampires

Zoogeria

They are sharing from the national cake!

Bunch of idiots

This can't be Buhari's fault, who do we blame

Parte after parte

Steal blood Kwa? No more conscience left in humans

Stealing blood??!... Vampires are real after all.

Check out their names now and you'll only see people from the land of the forever rising sun.

Selling?

okomile:
Zoogeria

They are sharing from the national cake!

Bunch of idiots

The meaning of your moniker in Yoruba is funny

Na only God if help dis country

swiz123:

wickedness may God help us

This is blood money

Are these one vampires or are they using the blood to do blood money?.

Vampyre staff, i tink dey are blood tasty

make dem continue to thief blood. Them go soon thief HIV blood

Honestly the Nigerian medical setting is doomed especially here in the north. I'm scared I won't practice in a place where sabotaging is the hobby of a majority in the system.
As at yesterday a friend was still telling me how the few who're qualified health care professionals, especially nurses that work at primary health care centres here in the north teach cleaners and other minor staffs in the clinic how to do their own job and they leave the clinic to attend to their own businesses. These are people on the government's pay roll oo. The gun powder we're sitting on in this country has started exploding. Only God can save us ..SMH

Tajbol4splend:




The meaning of your moniker in Yoruba is funny

Bros
Shi Mi sile ojare

that's new..
wetin osas nor go see for ring road