ARD LAUTECH Teaching Hospital: TABOO THAT MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED
PRESS RELEASE BY THE ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENT DOCTORS LAUTECH TEACHING HOSPITAL, OGBOMOSO, OYO STATE.
TABOO THAT MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED
Oyo state is supposed to be the pace setter state in novel, progressive and inspiring landmarks. This pace setting actions has in recent times gone awry and in fact gone in the negative direction.
Asides negatively setting the pace in owing members of the Association of Resident Doctors of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital fourteen and half month salary, she has amongst other previously publicized actions recently made official plans to barstardise residency training in Nigeria.
Residency training is a competency-based intensive postgraduate medical training undergone by medical doctors in various specialties of their choice in specifically accredited hospitals by the postgraduate medical colleges (National and West Africa). Resident Doctors are employed (starting as registrars) to train, engage in researches while rendering services of world class standard.
By the structure of the training, resident doctors cannot be transferred across health centres, General hospitals etc. While still remaining an employee of the employing hospital, they are allowed to go to specifically accredited hospitals for their specialist training if their employing hospital is not accredited for such.
This 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. We say IT IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL!!!
The Association of Resident Doctor LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso will resist this illegal action within all legal ambits and that there is no going back in our bid to get the people of Oyo state the best of health care.
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.
The implications of the state government’s action will mean increase morbidity and mortality rate as well as poverty for the citizens of Oyo state. This will also spell doom for the training of Medical students.
We call on all well meaning citizens, political stakeholders, religious and traditional rulers to wade into this mater.
Signed:
Dr S.O.Oiwoh President
Dr A.O. Alabi General Secretary
