Resident doctors at the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, have expressed concern over poor working conditions, severe staff shortages, arrears in payment of minimum wage and other welfare issues affecting the medical staff of the institution.
The doctors, under the auspices of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), said they had been forced to take a stand to protect their profession and dignity amid what they described as persistent negligence and broken promises.
In a statement jointly signed by the President of ARD, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Dr. Mustapha Adedapo A, and the Secretary General, Dr. John Stephen, the association regretted that the resident doctors had continued to work under difficult conditions.
The statement read in part: “Today, the resident doctors of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, are united. We took an oath to save lives, but today we are forced to take a stand to save our own profession and dignity.”
Doctors listed among the challenges they face severe staff shortages, arrears of minimum wages, unfulfilled subsidy promises and dilapidated call rooms.
They emphasized that an exhausted and abandoned physician could not provide the quality medical care that patients deserved, and noted that their demands centered on basic human dignity, fair compensation, and adequate funding of medical residency training.
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The association called on the Oyo State Governor, Oyo State Government, hospital management and other relevant stakeholders to urgently address their grievances.
“We do not ask for luxuries; we demand basic human dignity, fair compensation and adequate funding for the training of medical residents,” the doctors said.
They urged relevant authorities to resolve the problems and improve the well-being and working conditions of resident doctors to enable them to fully concentrate on their life-saving responsibility.
The association stated that its members remained united in their fight, insisting that urgent measures were needed to solve the challenges facing the hospital and its medical staff.
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