Why we are going on 3-day warning strike - Resident doctors in LASUTH reveal, threatens LASG

- Resident doctors in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) have resolved to go on a three-day warning strike

- Fatai Balogun, head of the association of resident doctors (LASUTH) chapter said the move was caused by the state government's inability to meet their demands

- Among other things, the association is asking the state government to replace house officers and resident doctors who had left the hospital

Following the Lagos state government's alleged refusal to meet their demands, resident doctors at LASUTH, Ikeja, have threatened to embark on an industrial action

Speaking on the looming strike, Fatai Balogun, the president of the association of resident doctors (LASUTH chapter) said the move was necessitated by failed efforts to get the state government to find replacements for some house officers and resident doctors who had left the hospital, Punch reports.

Balogun said: “It would be recalled that about four months ago, the association embarked on industrial action to demand the replacement of house officers and resident doctors who had left LASUTH. We suspended the strike after the government promised to grant our request.

“It is, however, disheartening that the state government has failed to keep its promise. As a result, our members are overworked and falling ill because each man is made to take up the duties of six or eight doctors.”

Arguing that the departure from LASUTH had brought about a decrease in the number of resident doctors from 840 to less than 200, Balogun remarked: “It appears that the only language that the government understands is an avoidable industrial action. All we are asking for is the seamless employment of resident doctors and house officers.

"The association will resume the suspended strike action with a three-day warning strike, which will commence by 8.am on Monday, January 28, 2019. During the warning strike, none of our members will carry out any official duty in the hospital. If after the three-day strike our demands have not been met then the congress will meet to decide the next line of action.”

Concerning shortage of doctors and resident staff, Adetokunbo Fabanwo, the chief medical director of LASUTH, said the new head of service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, is doing his utmost to deal with the issue.

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Fabanwo said: “I am sure they will not go on strike because the HoS believes in automatic replacement in other to address the shortage of staff in the hospital.”

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the Congress of the Coalition of Health Sector Unions (COHESU), Kwara branch, had suspended its indefinite strike due to the outbreak of Lassa fever, Yellow fever and Polio in some parts of the state.

This was contained in a statement jointly signed by Joseph Adekanye, chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and Murtala Olayinka, chairman of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) in Ilorin on Thursday, January 24.

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