UNIPORT Teaching Hospital Nurses Die In Six Months (See Cause Of Death)

 UNIPORT Teaching Hospital Nurses Die In
Six Months (See Cause Of Death)
- December 23, 2019
National Association of Nigerian Nurses and
Midwives (NANNM) University of Port
Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) has raised
concern that it lost four Chief Nursing
Officers within six months due to stress from
work overload.
Chairman of the Association in UPTH,
MacDonald Uchendu, said the affected
Nursing Officers were within the ages of 48
and 56 years.
She complained that they were understaffed
and urged the management to look into the
matter of recruitment of more nurses.
Investigation revealed that due to a recent
directive by the management to all heads of
department that ad-hoc staff who were
initially engaged and were being paid through
the Internally Generated Revenue of the
hospital should stop work, the regular staff
have been over burdened with work load.
A senior doctor who wants to remain
anonymous lamented that by next year, 2020,
the planned disengagement of Ad-hoc Staff
would immensely add to the overbearing
workloads on the doctors and nurses.
He said that the UPTH management had
engaged the ad-hoc staff to relieve the staff of
workloads because of the increasing number
of patients who daily seek medicare in the
hospital.
It was learnt that the management was acting
on directives from Federal Ministry of Health
to ensure financial prudence in Federal
Teaching Hospitals