However, the hospital commissioned in 2006 by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo now lay in ruins with patients sleeping on bare floors due to neglect.Billiri General Hospital in Gombe State like many general hospitals has full complements of units that should make it effective in providing quality healthcare to residents.
Some of the residents of the hospital community told our correspondent that they will not seek healthcare services in the hospital because of its poor state, noting that they prefer going to private hospitals. The lawmaker’s letter partly read, “It will interest Your Excellency to note that the present state of Billiri General Hospital ever remains dilapidated with structures almost collapsing or even non-existent while in-patients cry out against the near sub-human conditions prevalent.
A hospital staff who spoke with PUNCH HealthWise on the condition of anonymity said the lack of adequate manpower at the hospital was a result of transfers by staff posted to the facility. Speaking further the staff revealed that “The hospital heavily relies on casual workers to run the shift. Sometimes attendants, some of them with low qualifications as low as secondary school certificates, are engaged as contract staff and put in charge of some critical units like the eye clinic.
Nigeria 🤷🤷 I can not imagine 🙉🙉🙅
No be this same Gobe commission 260+ million naira mosque? Did her citizens complain? They like the suffering. Let them carry their sick to the mosque