UPTH Moves To Improve Service Delivery …Goes Cashless Soon

The Chief Medical Di
rector of  University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) , Prof Aaron Ojule, says the hospital is committed to improve and sustain quality service delivery to patients.
Prof Ojule revealed  plans by the hospital to go cashless by the end of the first quarter of 2014, as part of his plan for his second term in office.
He said, “by the end of this first quarter, we should have computerised some of our operations including payment systems, we are going cashless in this hospital”.
The CMD, explained that going cashless was only one of the ways they plan to improve service delivery at the hospital.
Others , he said include the employment of more health professionals to boost manpower.
“It is our intension to increase our work force, for which we have increase the size of the work force, by employing more health professionals”.
He said the management of UPTH has also put in place a mechanism to ensure that patients’ wasting time in the hospital is drastically reduced by encouraging better work attitude among staff.
Prof Ojule said, UPTH would be fully computerised by the end of his second term, and explained that , “computerization would ensure easy registration, payment, enhance investigation and consultations.
He noted that when he took over as the CMD of UPTH, the hospital had only 510 bed capacity, which he said was increased during his first tenure to 800 and hopes to further increase it and complete ongoing infrastructure at the hospital.

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