Friday, April 6, 2012

Don tasks doctors on service delivery

FORMER Chief Medical Director, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Prof. Eugene Okpere, has urged medical doctors across the country to put service to humanity first before financial gains.

He also admitted that it was morally wrong for doctors to go on strike as strikes have always put lives of patients in danger.

He stated this at a lecture he delivered in a ceremony organised by the University of Benin Medical Students Association (UBEMSA) in collaboration with Ashanti Graham Health and Education Initiative Foundation (AGHIEF) where the foundation’s founder, Douglas Okor said there was need for the Federal Government to invest in manpower development that could rule the medical world in 15 to 20 years from today.

“Our vision is 21st century healthcare for Nigeria, like the kind of healthcare you have in developed countries and by our projections, in the next 15 to 20 years, we will have that kind of healthcare.

“We have all it takes in Nigeria to get to where we want to be, but what is lacking is the people to get us there. We lack the people for direction and that is what we are now preaching that we need leaders.”

Okpere in his lecture said doctors needed to develop passion for their jobs adding that for the over 37 years he has been practicing he had maintained the vow he made when he was inducted as doctor “never to turn down any patient because of money or refuse to attend to any patient.”

He said administration has also been a bane of Nigeria’s hospitals just as he said he increased the daily revenue generated at the UBTH when he became the CMD from N3 million to N20 million four years after.

source: guardiannews


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