At least 600 of the hospital’s employees have left in the past year, according to Professor Abiodun Otegbayo, the chief medical director of Nigeria’s premier tertiary healthcare facility, the University College Hospital (UCH).
On Monday, November 21, Otegbayo stated at a press conference commemorating the 65th Founder’s Day celebration of UCH in Ibadan that at least 15 nurses, doctors, and pharmacists among others leave UCH on a weekly basis.
According to him:-
“Every week, I signed resignation letters of 15 health workers at the institution, who are mostly clinicians, that is, Nurses, Doctors and Pharmacists, among others.”he said
He mentioned that from 2020 to October 15, 2022, no fewer than 600 clinical staff had left the hospital and added that bureaucracy bottlenecks has been hindering their replacement. Otegbayo said there was an acute shortage of manpower due to push and pull factors, such as poor welfare of workers and insecurity, among others.
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