Resident doctors commenced a 3-day warning strike to protest the
poor working conditions at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, as well as to compel the LUTH
management to expunge certain clauses in the appointment letters of new
resident doctors.
Getting a residency training is essentially an act of God now because
there are not enough training centers. When you get in you spend about
six and half years specializing then to be thrown back into the labour
market in search of a job as a consultant. Continue...
LUTH has now decided that even before completing the training, the new
resident doctors would have to reapply for their jobs after scaling the
first hurdle of the training. The association of resident doctors (ARD)
are kicking against this clause as the management during their own
training did not have to go through such stress.
The aim of the management is to weaken the ARD and victimize doctors by
not reemploying any doctor that they consider troublesome.
The power situation in LUTH is so terrible that patients requiring
emergency surgeries or investigations have to leave if they can afford
private hospital or face the risk of dying. Also the prices of services
in LUTH is the highest amongst all teaching hospitals in Nigeria, this
deters patients from coming to LUTH and adversely affecting the
training. of resident doctors especially the surgical residents who have
to literally fight each other for surgical cases.
These and more has prompted the current strike.
*Report sent in by an affected resident doctor
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