The Affiliation of Resident Medical doctors on the College of Medical Sciences Educating Hospital, Ondo State, has commenced a 14-day warning strike over the non-payment of seven months’ salaries to their new members.
Members of the affiliation, who staged a protest on the premises of the ability on Tuesday, vowed to floor the actions on the government-owned medical facility if their calls for weren’t met.
President of the UNIMEDTH ARD, Dr John Matthew, who spoke with journalists throughout the protest, lamented that their members have been but to be paid their entitlements.
In keeping with him, different causes for the warning strike, embody the non-provision of palliatives to accommodate officers since February, the non-payment of February hazard allowance regardless of promise by the state authorities to pay two months, and the dearth of employees as a result of resignation of docs from the establishment.
He lamented that solely 26 members of ARD remained within the hospital in opposition to 150 members just a few months in the past.
He mentioned, “We demand full fee of the arrears of salaries owed our members and fee of February 2024 palliative to our home officers.
“Administration ought to pay February hazard allowance to our members and urgently deal with the extreme medical manpower scarcity within the establishment. Our members work on daily basis. There are not any employees members resulting from Japa syndrome.
The PUNCH stories that the state chapter of the Nigeria Medical Affiliation has known as on the state authorities to deal with the problem of scarcity of resident docs in state-owned hospitals.
In a communiqué issued by the state chairman of the affiliation, Dr Omosehin Adeyemi-Osowe, after its assembly, the affiliation mentioned lots of the docs within the state had left for greener pastures, whereas some who’re nonetheless in Nigeria had left the state for one more state.
The communique learn, “There’s dire scarcity of well being personnel within the state. Medical doctors have refused to take up employment with the Ondo State Authorities.
“It was additionally noticed that quite a few docs throughout the Ondo State Civil Service left for greener pastures domestically (neighbouring states reminiscent of Osun, Lagos, Ekiti, Kwara, Delta) and internationally, African Nations: Sierra Leone, Gambia, South Africa, and so on and out of doors the continent: United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Germany, and so on.
“As of the time of penning this communiqué, there are solely 22 resident docs at UNIMEDTHC in comparison with the earlier determine of 150 resident docs.”
