- Over conditions of service, unpaid salaries
Doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State yesterday began industrial action over poor conditions of service.
The industrial action was called by the hospital’s chapter of the Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) and announced by its Chairman, Dr. Ayobami Alabi and Secretary, Dr. Taiwo Alatishe, in a statement.
They said the decision was based on a congress resolution arrived at, at the expiration of an ultimatum earlier issued.
The chapter’s MDCAN declared that it had critically observed the situation in the hospital and there was no definite assurance that issues in contention would soon be resolved either partly or wholly.
The association said it had made efforts in the past to safeguard the hospital from total collapse and to reposition it for better training, research and services for which it was established.
It declared as unacceptable, the continued non-payment of salaries of its members recently employed.
It also decried the “delay and difficulty in payment of 2016 to 2017 salary arrears by the management.