Abstract
The study examined work stress and service delivery among health workers in University of Benin Teaching Hospital Benin City. The study adopted descriptive research method. Data were collected through questionnaire, focus group discussion guide, in depth interview and secondary sources. The study revealed that work overload has nexus with service delivery of the health workers of University of Benin Teaching Hospital. The study recommended among other things that University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) should deploy more student doctors in their residency programmes who would be closely supervised by their superiors in order to reduce the workload on existing doctors in their provision of health services. The work schedule for medical and health workers at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), should be made more flexible to accommodate the peculiarities in female medical personnel, especially married women, nursing mothers and those that are pregnant. The government should do better in the disbursement and payment of hazard allowances to medical and health workers in order to encourage their selfless services to God and humanity through the provision of quality healthcare services.
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