" THE CURRENT PRACTICE OF FINANCING PRIVATE MEDICAL CLINICS/HOSPITAL IN THE URBAN CENTERS OF NORTHERN STATES".
" THE CURRENT PRACTICE OF FINANCING PRIVATE MEDICAL CLINICS/HOSPITAL IN THE URBAN CENTERS OF NORTHERN STATES".
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1994-07
Authors
SAIDU, HASHEEM M.
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Abstract
The quality of service rendered by the private medical are in
relation with the fees they charge, the conditions in publichospitals
that forced city dweller to turn to private medical
services; and the ability of this sub-sectors to shoulder the
additional burden of maintaining professional ethics in the
current economic condition of the Nation prompted the
researcher to look at the funding and ownership structure of
Private Medical Clinics and Hospitals in Urban Centers of the
Northern States.
The work has established that the ownership of Private
Medical Clinics or Hospitals is predominantly soleproprietorship.
Funding is generated mainly from personal
savings and retained earning with very little use of bank
facilities. This has restricted growth and development in this
sub-sector, Funding problems is further compounded by the
attitude of doctors to the ownership of clinics and hospitals.
Doctors form the majority of clinic owners and majority of
them are not willing to let go the sole ownership structure
they currently operate even when they agree to the advantages
of group ownership to the practice. Finally recommendations
are put forward for the aggressive financing of private
medical service whith a call for government to recognise the
contribution of private medical services to National Health
Plan and to put forward policy that will make funding private
medical practice attractive. Doctors are also advised to
acquire some management and financial education, in order
to modify their attitude to business ownership. It is the
researcher's believe that when the recommendations are fully
and objectively implemented, funding of private medical care
will improve greatly and the improvement will reflect on the
quality of service provided by the Sub-sector.
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A PROJECT WORK SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT
FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
(MBA).
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION,
FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
JULY, 1994.
Keywords
CURRENT PRACTICE,, FINANCING PRIVATE,, MEDICAL CLINICS/HOSPITAL,, URBAN CENTERS,, NORTHERN STATES.