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Rivers Govt Recruits 500 Health Workers, Promotes 400

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1 year ago

Mar 7, 2024.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Governor Siminalayi Fubara has approved the immediate employment of 500 health workers in the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt.

The Chief Medical Director of the RSUTH, Prof. Chizindu Alikor, who disclosed this in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, lauded the governor for the gesture.

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Alikor said the governor also approved the promotion of 400 existing workers in the hospital who have remained in their present positions for over eight years.

The governor had recently held a meeting with the newly appointed members of the Rivers State Health Management Board.

Alikor explained that the approval for the employment of 500 personnel followed an official communication from the state Civil Service Commission to the RSUTH management.

He stated, “We received an official communication from the Rivers State Civil Service Commission conveying the approval of His Excellency, Governor Siminalayi Fubara to the board and management of the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital to proceed immediately in employing 500 healthcare workers into the hospital.

“The directive of that communication is that all of this should commence immediately and should be concluded within the next three months. And the understanding is that the staff should have resumed work in the next three months.”

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The RSUTH CMD also confirmed an earlier directive to promote over 400 Health workers of the state teaching hospital who had not been promoted for more than eight years.