OYO State National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), and Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital have criticised the management for redeploying 55 resident doctors.
NARD described the move as an “aberration and deliberate plan to rob the people of Oyo State of specialised healthcare”; Oyo NMA and ARD called it the “bastardisation of residency training” and “a taboo that must never be allowed”.
Last week, the management transferred 55 resident doctors and six consultants.
In separate statements, the three associations rejected the move and urged management to reverse the decision.
The statements by Dr. Ugochukwu Chinaka and Dr. O. V. Nandi (NARD President and Secretary General); Dr. Omolola Atalabi-Oladele and Dr. Abimbola Sojimi (Oyo NMA Chairman and General Secretary) and Dr. Sebastine Oiwoh and Dr. A. Alabi (LAUTECH Ogbomosho, ARD President and General Secretary) distanced themselves from the management’s action.
According to NARD, the transfer is an attempt to eliminate residency training at LAUTECH, Ogbomosho, saying: “It looks like taking 10 steps backward in an enlightened society as ours.”
The resident doctors urged the management to reverse its decision and others on the transfer.
It gave the management 21 days to rescind the decision or face further action.
Oyo State NMA said it was abnormal and provocative.
“The contract with the management and board of the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital and thus the current attempt to redeploy resident doctors or medical consultants to a non-teaching hospital is a gross anomaly and a breach of contract. We are of the opinion that it was done as an unintended error.”
