We won’t return to work, LAUTECH striking doctors dare Aregbesola
Striking doctors of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, on Monday, vowed not to resume duties, just as they dismissed sack threat by Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, describing it as a “huge joke.”
Medical doctors in all Osun State medical facilities have been on strike since Monday, September 28, 2015 to push for the implementation of CONMESS and relativity payment among other demands.
But, Aregbesola, through a statement issued by the permanent secretary, Ministry of Human Resources and Capacity Building, Mr Sunday Olajide, over the weekend, gave the striking doctors till Friday, December 25, 2015 to return to work or be sacked.
However, while addressing journalists on the issue at the premises of LAUTECH yesterday, the chairman, Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Dr Owolabi Adeyinka, said the allegation against the doctors that they were being paid salaries, despite being on strike, was untrue.
He contended that resident doctors were last paid full salary in June, adding that since then, they have been receiving stipend that was not even up to half of their monthly pay.
According to Owolabi, even when the state government has not been paying its doctors with the Federal Government approved adjusted CONMESS and relativity payment; it has been using a tax table meant for the state paying CONMESS to tax them.
Medical doctors in all Osun State medical facilities have been on strike since Monday, September 28, 2015 to push for the implementation of CONMESS and relativity payment among other demands.
But, Aregbesola, through a statement issued by the permanent secretary, Ministry of Human Resources and Capacity Building, Mr Sunday Olajide, over the weekend, gave the striking doctors till Friday, December 25, 2015 to return to work or be sacked.
However, while addressing journalists on the issue at the premises of LAUTECH yesterday, the chairman, Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Dr Owolabi Adeyinka, said the allegation against the doctors that they were being paid salaries, despite being on strike, was untrue.
He contended that resident doctors were last paid full salary in June, adding that since then, they have been receiving stipend that was not even up to half of their monthly pay.
According to Owolabi, even when the state government has not been paying its doctors with the Federal Government approved adjusted CONMESS and relativity payment; it has been using a tax table meant for the state paying CONMESS to tax them.
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