title: Cash management and revitalization of public medical centres in Nigeria: a strategic analysis.
abstract: In times like this, when Nigeria (like many other developing countries) is bracing up to the contemporary challenges posed by adoption and advancement of globally driven millennium development goals (MDGs), public medical centers (PMCs) cannot afford to be reckoned with financial epilepsy, bankruptcy, and degeneracy. This concern informed the thrust of the study. In the process, pertinent research questions were posed which elicited corresponding hypothetical propositions. With primary data volunteered by 150 administrative officials drawn from PMCs across the country, analytical proceedings were facilitated by the application of chi-square (x2) technique. The findings brought to the fore, the general bad shape of cash management in PMCs in the country. The recommendations for urgent attention underscored the constitution of strategic budget communities (SBCs), revitalization of internal audit committees (IACs), and attraction of goodwill private-sector endowments through convincing justification of the utilization and optimization of current government logistic subventions.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Management Sciences, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. paxcellent@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Prince U C
authors.initials: PU
authors.lastname: Agundu
authors.forename: Godwin B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Okon
authors.forename: Eric T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Robinson
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires