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The Board of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri has suspended plans by the management to go further with the plans of privatizing some departments and units in the health facility.
In a bid to ensure that peace reigns and find a lasting solution to the rift between the management and staff, the FMC board had also reversed the query letters given to staff in the course of the feud between the management and staff of the centre.
In an interview with journalists after a board meeting in the FMC premises in Owerri, the Imo State capital, South-east Nigeria, the acting FMC Board Chairman, Sen Onyeka Okoroafor, revealed that the board has decided to drop the proposal and plans to privatise, as it was one of the major cause of the crisis brewing in the centre.
On query of members, the board also disclosed that the decision has been reversed and staff can continue their normal duties without any interference.
He maintained that the issue of promotion arrears is not only peculiar to FMC Owerri, noting that all Federal Medical Centres in the country are affected and can only be addressed by the Federal Government.
The acting Chairman further dismissed the petition levelled against the FMC Owerri Medical Director, Dr Angela Uwakwem, calling for her removal on allegations of financial misappropriation, noting that the allegations are not genuine enough to warrant her dismissal.
Senator Okoroafor stated that they do not have the power to fire or hire, adding that the only the Federal Government reserves the right to deliberate on such issues.
The board, however, called on the staff to return to their normal duties and assured them that every decision taken by the board would always be in the best interest of the staff.
In the meantime, the protesting workers have maintained their stand that the Medical Director must be removed from office on allegations of financial misappropriation, high-handedness and victimization, positing that until she is removed, they would not return to their duty post.
The feud between the management and staff of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri took a new dimension on Friday when hundreds of staff of the medical centre took to the streets of Owerri the Imo State capital.
Carrying placards with various derogatory inscriptions calling for the removal of their Medical Director, Dr Angela Uwakem, they alleged financial misappropriation and virement, high-handedness and victimization.
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