{"id":49117,"date":"2024-09-19T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=49117"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:33:02","slug":"gombe-hospital-bars-staff-from-crypto-activities-during-work-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/19\/gombe-hospital-bars-staff-from-crypto-activities-during-work-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Gombe Hospital Bars Staff From Crypto Activities During Work Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe has banned cryptocurrency activities and mining during work hours due to distractions from patient care. Hospital management made this decision proactively, without waiting for complaints, prioritizing public health. This ban doesn&#8217;t restrict staff from engaging in other activities outside work hours.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that cryptocurrency is legal in Nigeria, where the hospital is located. In fact, Africa has 17 countries where cryptocurrency is legal, although only 38.6% of the continent has legalized it. Globally, 119 countries have legalized cryptocurrency, with Europe leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital&#8217;s decision highlights the potential impact of cryptocurrency activities on workplace productivity. By deploying monitors and security, the hospital aims to ensure compliance and maintain its focus on healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe has banned cryptocurrency activities and mining during work hours due to distractions from patient care. Hospital management made this decision proactively, without waiting for complaints, prioritizing public health. This ban doesn&#8217;t restrict staff from engaging in other activities outside work hours. It&#8217;s interesting to note that cryptocurrency is legal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":49118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[1530],"class_list":["post-49117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gombe-hospital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49119,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49117\/revisions\/49119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}