The Bauchi State Governor Senator Bala Mohammed Abdulkadir has said that 2,116 ghost workers were detected on the state payroll.
Governor Bala disclosed this on Monday in Bauchi when he declared open a health summit organised by the state Ministry of Health in Bauchi.
“In our effort to clean the state payroll, we recently removed 2,116 ghost workers from the state government payroll.
“Among them are 100 doctors and 120 Primary Healthcare staff working with NGOs within and outside the state who are collecting salaries from the state government even after they have officially exited from service,” he said.
Governor Bala said the two days Health Summit was organized as part of his commitment to provide one of the best healthcare services to the citizens of the state.
He said the summit will provide an opportunity for discussion on the strength and weakness facing healthcare delivery in the state with a view to proffering an enduring solution.
The governor said the state government deemed it necessary to come up with the summit as his administration had inherited a highly inefficient health system characterized by huge infrastructural deficit, inadequate human resources among others.
The Governor who told the participants the number of achievements recorded by his administration in the health sector, said its target is to renovate one hospital in all the Local Government headquarters of the state.
He assured that recommendations from the summit will be taken into consideration especially in the planned recruitment of health personnel and advancing the sector.
Governor Bala therefore sought for more support from development partners and other key stakeholders in the efforts of the state government towards repositioning and strengthening the state health system for the delivery of qualitative healthcare services to the citizens particularly Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, Adolescent and Elderly Health Plus Nutrition.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who declared the summit open, described the conduct of the summit as timely and suggested for the use of technology in order to achieve the desired objectives.
The minister commended Governor Bala Mohammed for the achievements so far recorded in the sector and pledged for continued support for effective service delivery.
