The doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, started a strike action on Monday due to poor working conditions and unpaid wages for the years 2016 and 2017.
The Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) chapter of the institution’s chairman, Ayobami Alabi, and secretary, Taiwo Alatishe, announced the start of the industrial action on Monday.
They claimed that their decision to stop working for the institution was based on a congressional resolution reached after the expiration of an earlier ultimatum.
The association noted that it had taken steps to protect the hospital from total collapse and to reposition it for better training, research, and services for which it was established, but that there was no assurance that the issues in dispute would be resolved anytime soon, either partially or completely.