From Yakubu Mustapha, Minna
Niger State Government said it had sanctioned some senior medical workers for negligence and discovered one of its staff had been receiving salaries for over three years without stepping into any hospital or the Ministry of Health.
The commissioner for health, Dr Mohammed Makunsidi while addressing Journalists at government house in Minna, said that the sanctions ranging from sack to demotion were invoked on some senior professionals in the health sector for “ gross professional misconduct”.
Makunsidi also stated that there was also a shocking revelation where a member of staff of the ministry was found to be officially on Grade Level 4 but had been drawing the salary of a Grade level 14 officer.
The commissioner said the most appalling was the case of a doctor and some nurses in one of the hospitals found culpable in the death of a pregnant woman for alleged negligence.
He hinted that the medical doctor is now on the run having been discovered to have opened a private hospital where he was diverting patients.
