BENIN CITY – The Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital Uselu, Benin City has said that the hospital is not in crises that would warrant the urgent intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Medical Director, Dr. S.O. Olotu in a reaction to a publication in The Nigerian OBSERVER by a petitioner, Bishop Ezekiel Oise Orhevba that the hospital was currently witnessing “irretrievably monumental rot”, described the report as untrue, misleading and distorted.
A release by the Medical Director through the   Hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Stewart Efe, and made available to The Nigerian OBSERVER on Monday, described the said report as Most Untrue, misleading and figment of imagination of the said Bishop Orhevba who, besides not being a staff of the hospital, had also lost touch with current realities on ground in the hospital.
“The hospital has neither witnessed any steady retrogression nor reign of impurity since November 2014, when some of the staff who were sacked as speculated by the petitioner will stop at nothing to throw stones at the glass house, after several unsuccessful attempts by him and his Cohorts to plunge the hospital into Chaos, using the machineries of (the) Union and Cooperative activities”, the Management of the hospital explained.
The release also viewed the said Bishop’s submission or views as “outright distortions” of the facts, maintaining that such a deliberate falsehood was least expected from someone who professes to be a “Bishop”, seeking to cause disharmony in the peaceful hospital environment.
On the sack of eight former staff of the hospital, the statement said the petitioner misfired, stressing that as a former member of the House of Representatives, Bishop Orhevba ought to know better and inform the public correctly, moreso as the issue was already a subject of legal interpretation in a competent court of jurisdiction.
It emphasized: “The Medical Director, Dr. S.O Olotu is not responsible for the sack of these Senior Staff, instead, it who the Board decision consequent on there is no sleaze in the hospital as alleged by the petitioner…”.
The statement added: “The Medical Director was yet to be appointed when some of the sacked staff blazed of serious misconduct for which they got consequences from relevant authorities in the forms of letters of warnings,   reprimand and advice”.
While it also dismissed the allegation of massive environmental pollutions and the use of menial and causal laborers in maintaining the    premises as untrue, the statement emphatically stated that the management adheres to laid down extant laws governing its operations in all departments and advised members of the public to be wary of the likes of Bishop Orhevba and his dogmas.
The statement further declared that the Medical Director ensures team spirit among staff and was irrevocably committed to further effective and efficient   mental health service delivery, staff welfare and human capacity development, which he has vigorously pursued to the delight of reasonable and sensible persons whose mantra is change.