Why Taraba Specialist Hospital May Become Diseases Contracting Center – Doctors Declare

Doctors at the Taraba State Specialist hospital Jalingo, have declared that the hospital may soon become a disease contracting center for whoever visit or go for medical check if the poor environmental condition of the hospital is not addressed.

They decried that the institution’s poor environmental condition was no longer healthy for mankind, going by the current unusual diseases emanating from the hospital.

Some senior doctor of the hospital who drew  the attention of Naija News to the situation but pleaded not be mentioned in the news, lamented that many patients were being readmitted for strange ailments after treating the initial situation that brought them to the hospital.

They said the strange sickness has been discovered to be caused by poor environmental hygiene which, according them, was affecting the hospital due to non release of running cost to the institution by the Taraba state government for nearly three years and lack of other logistics attention.

“Our hospital, the Taraba state Specialist is no longer healthy for enyone coming here. Our internal environment is poor and unhealthy for humankind.

“We have not received running cost for nearly three years now to manage the place and many sensitive points of the hospital that need regular maintenance are very poor.

“The unhealthy condition of the hospital is on daily basis introducing us to strange illmates. A patient we be brought to the hospital after treatment, he or she will start feeling another strange illmate that mostly compare us to transfer the patient to either federal medical center or any of the better hospital in Nigeria.

“We have had countless of such cases, our findings has proven that the poor environmental condition of our hospital is the reason behind the strange illmate been emanated here.

“We wonder why governor Darius Ishaku has chosen to abandone the a sensitive institution like this hospital. We gathered reliably that N200,000,000  loan has been collected in the name of the hospital by the governor some time last year 2021 after the United Bank for Africa UBA disapproved a loan in the name of Taraba state University Jalingo on the ground that the university was having over N150,000,000 pending loan obtained in 2019 and 2021, and surety by the state government.

“You will not like to bring any of your sick relation here if we take you round the sensitive points of this hospital that we are talking about. We are being own salaries as doctors, we can’t remember when last cleaners here were paid and even water has stop running through the hospital due to reasons we are ashame to give you.

“Majority of our senior doctors are now feeling discourage to work due to the poor working environment of the hospital. The only sensitive unit of the hospital that is at least looking decent is the lab.

“We want to declare to notice of citizens that if the poor situation is not attend to, Taraba state Specialist hospital would soon become a disease contracted center,” the doctors said.

When contacted, Taraba State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Innocent Vakkai refered our correspondent to the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, saying the CMD was in a better position to explain why the hospital is in such situation.

But when our correspondent visited the CMD, Dr. Maiangwa Alex in his office, the chief medical director declined to speak on the matter.

All efforts to get pictures of the affected areas were resisted by the hospital management.