Oyo doctors to begin strike October 2

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Oyo State chapter, says it volition statesman a seven-day informing onslaught connected Oct. 2 if the authorities authorities fails to code their demands for improved payment of members successful LAUTECH, Ogbomosho.

The Chairman of the association, Dr Happy Adedapo, made this known successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) connected Wednesday successful Ibadan.

According to him, the onslaught is intended to gully attraction to the pressing issues facing healthcare workers, including deteriorating welfare, inadequate infrastructure, and burnout, successful a bid to punctual authorities action.

He said that the relation had issued a 15-day ultimatum to the Oyo State Government connected Sept. 18 to code their demands.

He stated that the association’s demands encompass a scope of issues, including improved remuneration structures and timely outgo of allowances.

Others are the recruitment of further aesculapian staff, infrastructure upgrades and enhanced governance structures for LAUTECH teaching hospital.

“We person engaged the lawman governor, lawman talker of the location of assembly, the commissioner of wellness and members of the Oyo authorities assembly of elders.

“We person written letters to the politician himself to find lasting solutions to these issues to nary avail. We are not demanding for excessively overmuch arsenic a labourer is worthy of his wage.

“We are not going backmost connected our determination but the authorities commences the process of improving connected the payment of our members astatine LAUTECH,” helium said.

Adedapo warned that nonaccomplishment of the authorities to enactment could pb to full illness of healthcare services crossed Oyo state.

He called connected Gov. Seyi Makinde and different stakeholders to urgently intervene to forestall a looming situation successful the authorities healthcare system.

(NAN)

The station Oyo doctors to statesman onslaught October 2 appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.