The Enugu State Government has warned health workers in the state against truancy, including absenteeism and lack of commitment to duty.
Dr. Okechukwu Ossai, the Administrator, Enugu State Hospital Management Board, issued the warning in an interview with the News Agency (NAN) on Friday in Enugu.
Ossai said that truancy, lousiness, laziness, absenteeism and lack of dedication to work would henceforth attract severe disciplinary actions.
He noted that the major challenge observed in most of the state government hospitals is the absenteeism of health workers.
According to him, laziness, truancy, lousiness and absence from duty by the medical and health workers in the hospitals was eroding the confidence of communities and patient in healthcare service delivery.
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The administrator explained that he was mandated by the state government to bring health personnel back on their feet and to work towards re-building citizens confidence in them.
“As the hospital administrator of Enugu State, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has given me the mandate to get the staff back to work and carry out their duties effectively.
“The state government has spent so much resources in providing medical equipment and free maternal and child care treatment as well as training of the health workers in the state,” he said.
Ossai therefore advised the health workers to make good use of the knowledge acquired during their training because acquiring knowledge without making use of it is a waste of time and government resources.
“Try and give back to the society whatever knowledge you acquired in the course of your job and training so as to be relevant to yourselves, the society and to the government that employed and trained you,” he said. (NAN)
