Naira Scarcity: FCTA to sanction health workers denying patients treatment
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has warned that it would not hesitate to sanction any medical official that refuses to attend to patients because of the CBN cashless policy.
The Secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat, FCTA, Abubakar Tafida, disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday.
Mr Tafida said the administration had deployed alternative means of payment for patients to ease the difficulties in accessing medical services in hospitals.
“Worried by the challenges faced by patients in making payment in the hospital to receive medical attention, the secretary has mandated all the medical directors to engage the service of Multiple Point of Sale operators in their various facilities as an alternative to pay the medical bills,” he said.
Mr Tafida assured residents that the FCT administration was doing everything possible to ease their challenges.
He added that the situation was not just peculiar to the FCT but a national challenge, which he said would soon be over.
(NAN)
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