Chief Medical Director (CMD) Benue State University Teaching Hospital, (BSUTH), Professor Terlumun Swende has denied responsibility for the brain drain affecting the institution.

The institution’s Joint Health Workers Union, (JOHESU) currently on strike, at a press briefing, accused the CMD of high handedness and uncooperative attitude among other issues; a development, which it claimed, caused many consultants to leave the hospital.

But Swende insisted that the teaching hospital has the best manpower compared to many other referral institutions, noting, however, that the few that left could be on the ground of searching for greener pastures.

He said the hospital management has established a School of Health Information Management and secured accreditation from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, West African College of Surgeons and Physicians for departments, whose accreditation had expired or were previously given partial accreditation. 

According to him, out of the 400 patients brought to the hospital during herdsmen attack, only one lost her life, while the remaining 399 were successfully treated.
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