Aggrieved FMC Owerri Staff Issue Ultimatum To Management

Colleagues of the Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre
(FMC), Owerri, Dr Angela Uwakwem, are frustrated by certain actions of
hers.

The MD, who spoke on Monday, in an interviewwith Nigeria Horn
Newspaper, addressed some topical questions after the aggrieved staff
had sent a message to info@naij.com, revealing how matters are
handled at the FMC, Owerri.

The staff said in the last five years, the hospital has known or seen
no peace as workers are grudgingly discharging their duties to the
disadvantage of the patients, who do not know what is happening in the
healthcare centre.

"Today, if it is not the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) with
the management, it is the Medical and Dental Consultants Association
of Nigeria (MDCAN ) with the management. If it is not the Association
of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN ) with the
management, it is the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN ) or the
Association of Radiographers of Nigeria (ARN ) or the Nigerian Society
of Physiotherapy (NSP) with the management.

"These are problems engineered by one person who wants to perpetuate
her selfish desire to the disadvantage of the entire staff and the
public. Proverbially, you can fool some people sometime, but not
everybody all the time. Enough is enough! The hospital does not belong
to Dr Angela Uwakwem, or any other individual staff. The hospital
community has come up now to say capital 'No' to these antics and
gimmicks.

"There is no director or HOD in this hospital that knows what is going
on in the management of the hospital, except few sycophants that perch
around the medical director to solicit their promotions. Behind her
back, they feed you with information that you marvel at when you hear
them.

"Do we have to continue this way by allowing this woman sell our right
and privileges? No! Therefore, we have stood to reclaim our rights and
positions while allowing conflagration to fall on any combustible
material if need be,"the staff complained.

Below are the demands of the staff:

Our stand:Because staff have suffered in the hands of this woman
(medical director) in all ramifications of service, we do not want her
to drag us about again like those sheep that move around the hospital
(the more you look, the less you see).

1) Public-private partnership (PPP):

The public-private partnership is an optional government policy put in
place to strengthen weak areas in any institution by employing
services of a private partner. The private partner strengthens areas
of equipment, infrastructure (buildings), or areas the institution is
lagging behind in (not core business areas like core clinical areas).

We want PPP in our centre. Yes, we do! The areas of importance for PPP
are not Pharmacy, Laboratory, Physiotherapy or Radiology, as opined by
the MD. We want a management consultant, a seasoned hospital
administrator who will take over the administration of the hospital.
The management consultant will strengthen the weak area of our
management. We will pay him in accordance with the MOU (Memorandum of
Understanding). By so doing, the "sleeping dogs" will lie. The present
management (MD) does not know much about the rule of the game, so we
need this desired and necessary change. Management is not about what
you make into your private pockets as it is the case here now.

We need a management consultant as a private partner to strength the
weak management pattern in the hospital.

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