Houet / National Blood Transfusion Center: The union cries out for bad governance

The National Coordination of the section of the Union of Human and Animal Health Workers of the National Blood Transfusion Center (SYNTSHA / CNTS) organized on Monday March 13, 2023 in Bobo-Dioulasso, a conference of press to denounce the bad governance experienced by the structure. The National Coordination of the section of the Union of Human and Animal Health Workers of the National Blood Transfusion Center (SYNTSHA / CNTS) is dissatisfied with the administration of the National Center, the regional centers (CRTS) and the sampler and product distributor depots (DPD/PS). She made this known during a press conference that she organized on Monday March 13, 2023, in Bobo-Dioulasso. The national coordinator of SYNTSHA/CNTS, Bernardin Sanou, and his comrades have recounted a string of difficulties that their “house” is currently going through. They cited the difficulties related to poor governance experienced by the structure, which are the lack of essential equipment and consumables, “non-rational” financial management, insufficient staff and the breakdown and “poor quality” of equipment and snack kits. The speakers added as other difficulties, ‘recurrent’ breakdowns of the laboratory automatons, the ‘repetitive’ rupture of reagents, the questioning of the achievements of the workers and the delay in payment of their mission expenses. ‘Quality is trampled on at the CNTS. At the end of February 2023, bags of blood were put into circulation even before the quality and vigilance department carried out the quality control test,’ revealed the union coordinator. What is regrettable, in the eyes of the union, is that despite its questioning of the administration, nothing has been done. And to continue that to date, there are almost no more sampling chairs at the DPD/PS of Kaya and Gaoua, and that those of the CRTS of Fada N’Gourma and Bobo-Dioulasso have deteriorated. Regarding the questioning of the achievements of the workers, the speakers mentioned the fact that the agents did not benefit until then from the motivation bonus as agreed in the SYNTSHA-Government memorandum of understanding of March 2017. Regarding the proposals what the union intends to do if the situation does not improve, Bernardin Sanou affirmed that the union has made ‘concrete’ proposals to the administration of the CNTS.

Source: Burkina Information Agency