UNTH saves N120 million per annum through direct execution of outsourced services.

The authorities of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu said at the weekend that over one hundred and twenty million Naira previously spent on outsourced services handled by contractors per annum had been saved following the decision to handle the services internally.

These services were reviewed by the Chief Medical Director, Christopher Amah led administration with effect from July this year.
Amah said the review followed the expiration of the five year
contracts in the area of laundry, cleaning and security services in the hospital.

He added that the review had also infused competition and efficiency
in the system as more than one contractor now handle these services
within the hospital.
He announced that the perennial problem of water scarcity at the permanent site of the hospital had been laid to rest with the success sinking of some motorized boreholes through a modern technology.

The Chief Medical Director said the period of the contracts had also been
reduced from five to two years, saying it was a way to monitor performance.

He said his desire was to make the hospital one of the reference
centres in the country, regretting however that incessant strikes by
resident doctors had affected the activities of the hospital.

He however, appealed to the striking doctors to return to work in the
interest of Nigerians dying daily owing to the absence of the doctors from their duty posts.

Amah added that despite scarcity of funds the management is currently rehabilitating Ward 9 to upgrade it to international status like the National Centre for Cardiothoracic heart surgery which has successfully performed over ninety patients.
He said that the hospital facilities had been seriously given facelift for improved service delivery adding that the Amenity Ward could be compared with any standard hospital overseas.

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