Psychiatric Hospital Laments Feeling Frustrated By Disgruntled Staff
A psychiatric hospital, the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu (FNHE), has lamented that the actions of a disgruntled staff have frustrated its transformational efforts. This is as it says, the improvements in infrastructure, personnel and mental health services for Southeast residents have reached unprecedented levels in the past three years.
On Wednesday Professor Monday Igwe, the hospitals Medical Director, had disclosed this during a press conference in Enugu which marked his third year in office. He stated that the unnamed person who not only detested due process and was part of the chaotic old order in the place had relentlessly sponsored faceless, baseless, unverifiable and fictitious publications against him and his administration.
However, Professor Igwe stated that under his watch, the staff welfare was paramount and that the due process strictly observed. He added that the decisions were taken based on the public service rules. He, therefore, advised any staff memeber that has any issues to mention such through the stipulated channels and not take it to social media just to tarnish the hospitals image.
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“Prior to my appointment as Medical Director, the hospital was in serious crisis. Labour was at logger heads with Management. The hospital staff belonged to multiple camps and there were much litigation. The crisis culminated into suspension of the outgoing Medical Director before the end of his tenure and appointment of an Acting Medical Director. There was also an alleged assassination of the Head of Nursing Services by some staff who have been discharged and acquitted for this by a competent court. At present, peace has fully returned to the hospital. There is good and cordial working relationship between Management and Labour. No staff is denied of his/her legitimate entitlements,” Igwe stated.
He had listed a few of the significant positive changes in the areas of service delivery, staff and infrastructural developments in the hospital that also included the establishment of six outpost stations for community mental health in 6 of the 15 Senatorial Districts in the zone, the procurement of all of the relevant psychological instruments needed for patients as well as an electroencephalogram machine for the management of epilepsy patients.
He also added that the accreditation for the residency programme which the psychiatric hospital had lost approximately 21 years ago in the two postgraduate medical colleges had been resuscitated under his leadership.
“The hospital was delisted as a training institution having lost accreditation for more than 2 decades. We paid fees to both National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and West African College of Physicians and accreditations done in August and September, 2021 respectively. Provision of all necessary infrastructures and manpower were fully done and we ended up getting accreditation for 5 years in each College,” he stated.
