Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has approved the regularisation and absorption of 415 temporary health workers across the state-owned hospitals into the state pensionable workforce.
Speaking during the regularisation exercise held on Friday at the Staff Development Centre, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital, the Permanent Secretary of the Hospitals Management Board, Olayinka Elemide, thanked Abiodun for the kind gesture saying, “This kind of regularisation exercise is unprecedented in the history of the state.”
Elemide added, “On behalf of the Hospitals Management Board and the 415 locum hospital workers, I want to thank the governor for his large heart and kind consideration as a loving father of the workers in the state.”
She disclosed that the health workers had been on the job for some time now, adding that the formal regularisation would help to secure their jobs, boost their morale and help improve service delivery which would translate to effective health care delivery to the people of the state.
Elemide said, “I hereby charge you as the beneficiaries of the magnanimity of our dear governor to reciprocate this kind consideration by improving on your dedication and service delivery in the present administration’s commitment and quest for qualitative healthcare delivery.”
Responding on behalf of other beneficiaries, Mr Sanni Akanni and Mr Geminiyi Jacob of General Hospitals in Imeko/Afon and Atan respectively lauded Abiodun for the gesture while promising to be more dedicated, productive, diligent and committed in the discharge of their duties.
The erstwhile ad hoc workers in their numbers took turns to get their documents and certificates verified by officers from the Bureau of Establishment and Training led by the Permanent Secretary of the Bureau, Mrs. Lydia Fajohunbo in compliance with the rules and regulations of the service.
