Resident doctors at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, have given the hospital management 10-day strike notice to protest unpaid salaries.
President of the UCH branch of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Segun Olaopa, made this known on Friday while briefing journalists.
He said the action of the doctors followed the lack of any fruitful result from the dialogue being held with the management of the hospital.
His words: “It has become imperative to draw the attention of the press to the brewing issues in UCH. These issues if not addressed, may impact negatively on the existing industrial harmony at the hospital.
“These issues include: non-payment of our September salary, 28 per cent shortfall in August salary, 2016 shortfalls of 11 months till date and work overload due to management’s refusal to employ new residents.
“Presently, the number of residents stands at 525; this has reduced to 454, as some of them have completed their residency. By this October, 40 among us will also finish the residency.
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“The implication of this is that the remaining few residents are given work overload and this should not be; management should employ more residents to make the workload easy and to achieve maximum productivity.
“Resident doctors’ accommodations need to be rehabilitated. The conditions of those flats are nothing to write home about.
“We implore management to do the needful in order to avert another strike,” he said.
The notice is coming just a month after a strike which lasted 10 days was called off.
The government had promised to release fund to pay the salaries the doctors were owed.
