The Association of Resident Doctors ,
Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso has appealed to
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo to pay them their full salaries.
A statement issued on Saturday in
Ogbomoso by Dr Sebastine Oiwoh and Dr Ayobami Alabi, the President and
General Secretary of the association respectively, said that members of
the association had only been paid 50 per cent of their salaries from
January to March.
The statement described the situation as unfair.
The statement said, “We beckon on the
listening ears and tender heart of our father, Gov. Abiola Ajimobi not
to single our members out amidst other health workers in Oyo state civil
service.
“All other doctors and health workers in the state civil service are receiving full salary.
“They have been paid their full salaries from January to March 2016, while we received half.”
The officials noted that doctors’
services bothered on “saving lives and maintaining health of the
citizens of the state, who see the hospital as their only hope no matter
the social class’’.
They commended the state government for
its foresight in establishing the teaching hospital and urged it not to
renege on its promise in the area of funding of residency training.
They also urged the government to
install essential equipment and complete infrastructures in the hospital
to match its blue print.
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