Doctors in lmo State University Teaching Hospital, Orlu are alleged to be abandoning patients to die.
The allegation was made by a panel set up by the state government to investigate the institution.
In the report, the panel also alleged that the mortuary in the teaching hospital was overflowing with corpses such to the extent that government is planning mass burial.
The panel reported that the patients were allegedly left to their fate because they refused to patronise private clinics owned by the doctors working in the hospital.
The panel’s report alleged that many of the doctors use the hospital as a poaching ground for patients to their private clinics.
It was also alleged that patients who do not have money to attend the private clinics are abandoned to die.
“Because of this anomaly, almost 80 percent of patients who go to IMSUTH end up dying. That is why the mortuary is filled to the brim and mass burial is contemplated,’ the report said.
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Angered by the development, the government dismissed the chief medical director and also ordered his prosecution.
Among the alleged fraud in the hospital is the padding of salary from N147m paid in December 2019 to N236m in January 2020 when Governor Hope Uzodinma assumed office.
Also, a top official of the hospital allegedly awarded himself monthly salary of N1.6m contrary to extant laws while he allegedly caused to disappear N10m monthly IGR.
Imo State Commissioner for information and Strategy, Mr. Declan Emelumba, told journalists in Owerri that government took the measures to save the hospital.
He disclosed that government was also going to punish all staff members indicted in the report.
