Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital - Banjul |
Gambia’s
President Friday dismissed the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital’s (RVTH) Chief
Medical Director, Dr. Ahmed Secka and dissolved the Board of Directors of the
Hospital.
An April 27
press statement from the Office of the President, accuses doctors and nurses of
laissez faire attitude towards patients at the RVTH which has “resulted in
unnecessary deaths and sufferings for many people.”
This latest sackings came three months after President Yahya
Jammeh warned that he will wipeout “lackadaisical attitudes” at workplaces. On
the eve of his inauguration for a fourth five-year term in January, he said
civil servants “should do their work, go home or go to jail.”
In an interview, Jammeh told the nation’s broadcaster: “You go to the Royal Victoria Teaching
Hospital (RVTH) or any hospital, for that matter; what we thought was history
is coming back and, that is, you go there and the nurses do not care. They sit
chatting, and they are very rude. Or the doctors are nowhere to be seen and, at
the end of the day, they are being paid salaries.”
Meanwhile, Friday’s announcement said the “tragic loss of lives and sufferings” could
have been avoided, had it been that those entrusted with the
responsibility of taking care of patients had paid special attention to their
welfare.
It warned
that “all other nurses and doctors also found wanting in their duties will be
dealt with accordingly.”
Like any
other institution and households in the country, the main referral hospital
also suffers from erratic electricity supply, which is alleged to have resulted
in disastrous consequences.
“It has
also been discovered that power outages often occur in the middle of major
surgical operations, or some other life-saving activities with tragic
consequences,” the statement added, directing NAWEC, the country’s energy
company, to work closely with the Office of the President to provide specially
dedicated power lines that would supply constant electricity to every major
hospital in the country.
Meanwhile,
President Jammeh have used the situation to add RVTH to the many institutions
already under his purview, and equally reappointed Professor Ousman Nyan, the
provost, School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of The
Gambia as the chief medical director of the Hospital.
By Modou
S. Joof
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