Unpaid Doctors call for Governor's resignation

Resident doctors at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology LAUTECH, Teaching Hospital, Osogbo have called for Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s resignation over their unpaid salaries.

The Doctors made the call on Thursday, June 18, stating that the the Governor should resign if he fails to pay workers’ salaries by the end of this month of June.

In a protest staged outside their hospital, the Doctors said that the Aregbesola administration has sapped their patience over the non-payment of their salaries for eight months.

Speaking at the protest, the association president, Dr. Olalekan Ajayi said, “we are here for just a very simple but very complicated issue. We have not been paid for the past eight months. And since then, we have been lobbying and appealing to the government to help but till date we have not been paid.

“It has not only affected us as humans, it has affected our families and also our patients .We are telling the government of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to do the needful.

“This is economic genocide in our state. It is not compatible with life. For these eight months, we have tried to maintain peace and industrial harmony. There is no official announcement that we are on strike but we can’t work.

“The hospital is down, everybody is down and there is no way we can actually work as professionals.”

Ajayi advised the governor to pay urgent attention to the welfare of the state workers and the health sector instead of roads construction, which he said can wait, adding that if salaries are paid, patients will stop dying from inaccessibility to good health care.