LASU resident doctors threaten to embark on strike over alleged breach of agreement

macfranc007 September 03, 2018 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Naija news 24/7 Rahaman Abiola

- Lagos State University Teaching Hospital resident doctors have issued a notice, threatening a shut down soon

- They said the government's inability to employ more doctors to ensure effective health service delivery is posing a big bane to their work

- They also stated that their plea to the appropriate authorities to respond to their 21-day ultimatum and others demands are responsible for the proposed strike

Lagos State University Teaching Hospital resident doctors, at an emergency press conference held on Saturday, September 1, at the LASUTH resident doctors lounge in Ikeja, said they may soon embark on strike come September 5, 2018 if their demands are not met by the appropriate authorities.

In a report by The Punch, the acting president of the association, Dr Ibrahim Ogunbi, stated that the inability of the government to employ house officers to ensure topnotch health service delivery have been hindering their works, prompting them to take the necessary drastic alternative to press their demands.

Ogunbi said they have earlier given a 21-day ultimatum and early tabled their grouses to the government to provide more hands to ease the burden that comes with health service delivery.

He said with the present situation and breach of agreement, the body cannot continue to fold alms in the face of neglect by the authority, thus their submission to seek the no-work option.

NAIJ.com gathers that lack of resident doctors is one of the major problems faced by the body over the last three years.

Ogunbi said: “After a 21-day ultimatum, which expired on August 23, the congress resolved that the grace of one week be given for the immediate employment of resident doctors which will put an end to the recurrent shortage of doctors in LASUTH.

“Failure to implement this will lead to a total warning strike for three days starting from 8 am on the 5th of September, 2018 followed by an indefinite partial strike during which only emergencies will be attended to until expected response is obtained.”

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported how medicines purchased by patients at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) were being stolen and resold by medical personnel.

According to the report, nurses are the perpetrators of the crime as some of them have turned to medicine vendors, selling the stolen medicines at a cheaper rate to other patients. This is easy because the patients’ names are not written on the medicines.

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