Resident Doctors Issue 21 Day Ultimatum To Oyo State Government Over ‘Illegal’ Transfer

The National Association of resident doctors, NARD has issued out a 21-day ultimatum to both the oyo state government and the management of the LAUTECH teaching hospital, Ogbomoso to reverse the transfer of its members from the teaching hospital to other arms of the civil service, most of which are non-teaching hospitals.

In a statement issued and made available to CityMirrorNews, the national body of resident doctors in nigeria condemned the action of the management of the teaching hospital describing it as an “provocative and illegal transfer”
“It is an abberation and deliberate plan to rob the people of oyo state of specialized health care when registrars are being redeployed to a non-teaching facility amidst growing tide of non-payment of their salaries ”

Also, in another statement, the president of the Association of resident doctors, ARD at the LAUTECH teaching hospital Ogbomoso, Dr. Sebastien Oiwu described the transfer of over a hundred resident doctors of the teaching hospital as “ill-informed, distasteful and illegal action of the state government orchestrated and indulged by the hospital management is a total aberration not only in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa but worldwide.”

He further accused the state government of embarking on a clandestine move to convert the teaching hospital to a general hospital there geopardising not only the healthcare status of the people in the state but the medical training of resident doctors in the institution.

“We are also not unaware of the series of steps aimed at destroying the hospital; payment of percentage salary was the initial phase then to this illegal transfer and the final plan is to change the name of the hospital to their desired General hospital status.”

One hundred and twenty resident doctors in the LAUTECH teaching hospital were among over 200 staff of the teaching hospital redeployed to the civil service in a move announced by management of the teaching hospital with 249 others also losing their jobs.