Members of the Association of Resident
Doctors, Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, have
called on the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, to pay them full
salary like other health workers in the state instead of the half salary
they have been receiving.
The plea was contained in a statement
signed by President of the association, Dr. Sebastine Oiwoh, and its
General Secretary, Dr. Ayobami Alabi, which was issued on Saturday.
The association decried the singling out
of its members for the treatment by the state government, saying that
it added to the poor financial situation of members who were being owed
arrears or salaries.
The statement said, “We beckon on the
listening ears and tender heart of our Governor Abiola Ajimobi, not to
single our members out amidst other health workers in the Oyo state
civil service. All other doctors and health workers in the state civil
service are receiving full salary.
“They have been paid full salaries from
January to March 2016, while we received half of the payments made. We
want to appeal the recently implemented decision to pay only doctors and
other staff of LAUTECH Ogbomoso 50 per cent of our salary after being
owed for seven months.”
The association said since its members
rendered full services to save lives and contribute to the development
of the state and the teaching hospital, they deserved full salaries.
The doctors acknowledged that the state
government had done well by establishing the teaching hospital, but
that it had, however, reneged on its promise in the area of funding of
residency training.
The statement further said, “It has also
reneged on the installation of some essential equipment, delivery of
equipment by contractors and completion of infrastructure to match the
blue print of the hospital. The university, in future, won’t be able to
train medical students who would become medical doctors as accreditation
would be lost from paucity of needed specialists.
“The masses and entire citizenry would
have been denied this dividend of democracy and good governance and this
implies worsened health indices, decimated productivity and by
implication, a poorer economy in this period of recession.”
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