LAGOS — Resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-araba will today embark on an indefinite strike following failure of the hospital management to resolve the lingering crisis after they called off their three-day warning strike. But in a swift reaction to the expected strike, the LUTH management warned that it will not tolerate any attempt to disrupt patients care even as it vowed to ensure that all clinics remained open for patients.
Confirming the commencement of the industrial action in a telephone chat with Vanguard, President of the association, Dr. Ramon Moronkola, described non implementation of the skipping allowance by the hospital as unilateral breach of agreements as directed by the Federal Government.According to the doctors, the painful decision was taken to press home their demands over the non implementation of
the skipping allowance which was part of the agreements reached with the Federal Government on December 16, 2013 and January 4, 2014.
Moronkola, who announced that the strike will commence at 8:00a.m today, urged Nigerians to blame the Chief Medical Director of the hospital for the strike. His words: “We did our best to avoid the strike. For more than two months now we have been on it. At a point, when we were pushed to the wall, we gave seven days ultimatum and there after 21 days ultimatum but the management of the institution failed to utilised the period.
It’s a painful decision
“We embarked on a three-day warning strike yet nothing was done. It is really a painful decision but we have to do it. Management has failed by not using the opportunity of the period of ultimatum. We are hoping that they will come back to the negotiating table to stop the strike from dragging for too long.”
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