Health
THE Management of Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (DASH), Lafia, has set up a five-man committee to settle the controversy surrounding residency training at the hospital, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Hassan Ikrama, said on Sunday, in Lafia.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in an interview, that the controversy was generated when the Association of Resident Doctors decided to boycott activities, including residency training, at the hospital, prompting the management to suspend the training pending the outcome of the committee’s work.
According to him, given the second wave of corona-virus and its attendant effect, Resident Doctors had advised the management to shut down the entire hospital and allow only emergency cases, but the management instead chose to take serious measures to protect staff, in order to continue operating full clinical services.
He added that the decision of the management to operate fully did not go down well with the Resident Doctors, and they decided boycott all activities, including the residency training.
“Their boycott of residency training annoyed the Consultants, who are their trainers and they decided to also withdraw their services.
“Amidst the controversy, the management, therefore, decided to suspend the programme and set up a committee to review the residency training and submit a report within four weeks, the CMD added.
Ikrama assured those affected by by the temporary suspension of the program to remain calm as the program would resume as soon as the committee submitted its report, explaining that the hospital had successfully trained and graduated six consultants locally, through the residency training, in five departments, in the last two years.
He said they graduated one consultant in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department and five in the department of family medicine, citing the Hospital as one of the few state owned specialist hospitals carrying out residency training in the country.
The hospital started with one department and now five, the CMD said, adding that the management, under his leadership, was working hard to begin residency training in more departments.
Dr Ikrama added that the residency training was aimed at ensuring that Medical Doctors attained the height of their careers, pledging that modalities were also being worked out to commence postgraduate training for other clinical staff.
The Medical Director assured members of the public that the hospital was now properly equipped, with medical facilities and more qualified manpower, befitting of a specialist hospital with a view to ensuring better service delivery.
He also lauded Governor Abdullhi Sule for giving the hospital the attention it deserved, through interventions in the provision of more equipment and structures. (NAN)
– Feb. 7, 2021 @ 19:18 GMT
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