Governor Adams Oshiomhole gave the warning Monday during an unscheduled visit to the state-owned Central Hospital, Benin.
Oshiomhole who was unhappy with the services of the doctors, warned that government would not hesitate to dismiss any doctor found wanting.
“Our hospitals are not supposed to be death centres but healing centres, you are trained to save lives, but you preside over avoidable deaths by reason of your negligence. We will dismiss any doctor who is not ready to work,” Oshiomhole said.
“We don’t have all the resources we need. But the little we have we don’t have value for money.
“If we don’t have a hospital, we should be able to tell our people so that they can go to herbalists.
“But when you put a sign board that there is a hospital and you go there and there is no doctor, the general impression is that it does not matter. When they don’t see a doctor in the hospital, they will now go to private hospitals,” he said.
“People must know that when they run down a state, they must not be allowed to thrive anywhere. What has happened to our values? Those who sabotage government hospitals, I will make sure they cannot practice anywhere”.
Oshiomhole advised “once we accept a job we must be ready to cope with the rigours of the office.
“All of us are lamenting that Nigeria is not growing. How can Nigeria grow when we have poor attitude to our responsibilities”, adding “see all the women there, they came and discovered there is no doctor.”
The Governor noted that our people are already dying of negligence, so I am not bothered about threat of strike.