Doctors in UBTH are the least paid amongst the federal hospital in the country, they have been receiving percentage salaries for years. Victimisation of hospital staff – staff of the hospital are been victimised by the hospital management.Ĭan you specifically elaborate on the working conditions of the doctors are UBTH and how that affects the patients and the hospital in the long run?ĭoctors in UBTH are in a terrible state of deprivation from wages to staff strength to conditions of work. 2 Deprivation of our members – UBTH Doctors earn the least in the country 3. Consumables and basic drugs are unavailable. Payment of percentage salaries is not our only demand our demands can be categorized into : 1, deprivation of the hospital- the hospital is been allowed to rot, radiotherapy machine is not functional, CT scan machine hardly functional, X-ray machine is broken down most of the time. Is this the only condition why the ARD UBTH is on strike? It will do the country a lot of good if the federal government search light is brought to the door steps of the UBTH management, a lot will be revealed. The only reason that comes to mind is that the management in these institutions is more competent. One wonders why doctors in UBTH should earn less than those in OAUTH, Ife, UCH, Ibadan, National Hospital, Abuja, UCTH, Calabar etc. The Doctors of UBTH have not been paid percentage of their salaries since January 2014 this is not the case in most federal government hospitals in the country. The public is made to understand that the strike action is hinged on Skipping remunerations but the CMD is saying that that is not within the scope of the present budget of the hospital, can you explain why then you are on strike? We just have to do this at this time to prevent the hospital from running to a halt. Sir ARD UBTH is eager to suspend this action because the UBTH patients who are at receiving end of the wrong management of the hospital are our neighbours, friends, relatives, fiancés, brothers, sisters, parents, wives and children, our training is also suffering. In the first place we embarked on this action because all other options had been exhausted, it was a painful decision but several months of dialogue with our management yielded no result, we had to give a 21 day ultimatum after 6 months of failed negotiations this ultimatum was extended to 35 days still management showed no seriousness. The strike action embarked by resident doctors have gone on for close to two months now, is there any plans of ending the action soon? Michael Ibadin is responsible for the strike in this interview with LARA ADEJORO. Owen Omorogbe, President of the ARD (UBTH Chapter) says that the incompetence of the management led by Prof. With the industrial action embarked upon by the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) going into 60 days, patients are alarmed and the casualty rate keep increasing.
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