The Affiliation of Resident Medical doctors, Obafemi Awolowo Educating Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has lamented snake invasion of the hospital and its annex in Ilesa, decrying poor working circumstances within the two amenities.
The medical doctors disclosed this in a communique issued in Osogbo, the state capital, on Thursday, on the finish of an emergency congress of the affiliation.
The communique was collectively signed by its President and Public Relations Officer, Dr. Enesi Ibukunoluwa and Dr. Abiola Rasheed, respectively.
The affiliation said that regardless of a number of formal and casual engagements by the group with the administration of the hospital, points bordering on the welfare of members had remained largely unresolved.
The communique listed points bordering on the welfare of the medical doctors within the hospital together with the “continuous scarcity of medical doctors and growing burnout amongst medical doctors, non-payment of as much as 14 months arrears to 42 medical doctors who diligently labored with nearly all of them nonetheless working for the hospital, non-capturing of the so-called newly employed medical doctors on IPPIS and the non-payment of withheld March 2024 salaries of over 45 medical doctors who had been abruptly suspended from the hospital payroll with none justifiable purpose.
“Non-availability of name meals throughout name hours and deplorable state of name rooms with bushy environments and a number of snake sightings, and non-payment of the accrued accoutrement allowance.”
The affiliation demanded the “fast cost of all excellent arrears to 42 medical doctors who diligently labored and are nonetheless working for the hospital, fast capturing on the IPPIS platform of the medical doctors above consistent with the general public service rule 040102, fast cost of withheld March salaries of over 45 medical doctors earlier suspended from the hospital payroll, fast restoration of name meals throughout name hours and refurbishment of medical doctors’ name rooms with pressing consideration to the Home Officers’ name room within the Emergency Division in Ife Hospital unit and Wesley Guild Hospital.”
Additionally included in its calls for is the “fast cost of the accrued accoutrement allowance, fast reversal of the unjust implementation of the “No Work and No Pay” coverage within the face of a five-day protest to appropriate a ‘Work and No Pay’ scenario of as much as 14 months to our members.”
The affiliation additional threatened to proceed with a protest on July 1, 2024, ranging from 8 a.m. and a two-hour break throughout name hours to kind the decision meals of medical doctors, if its calls for weren’t met.
“No resident physician, medical officer or home officer will likely be on the bottom between 5 p.m. and seven p.m. every day beginning July 1, 2024, till the decision meal is totally restored.
“To proceed on an indefinite strike after 4 weeks if the aforementioned calls for are usually not satisfactorily addressed,” the communique learn.
Shedding extra gentle on the problem of snake sightings at OAUTHC in Ile-Ife and its annex, Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesa, ARD’s spokesperson, Abiola, throughout an interview with The PUNCH, stated, “Throughout the final month, seven snakes had been killed in each Ilesa and Ife hospitals however majorly in llesa.”