Under the aegis of Ondo State Doctors' Forum comprising Association of Resident Doctors University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (ARD UNIMEDTH), Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria( MDCAN), National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioner ( NAGGMDP), medical doctors in ondo state have begun an indefinite strike to press home their demands. This was made known to the public by Dr Omolayo Olubosede ( the spokesperson of the Government Doctors) while addressing a news conference at Akure The Ondo State Capital yesterday.

The Doctors had rejected unanimously the payment of half salaries for the month of November 2020 by the State Governor Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu and demanded payment of their outstanding arrears of 4 months salaries. A letter sent to the Acting Commissioner of Health, Honourable (Dr ) Ajibayo Adeyemi to pre-inform the Governor of recent developments and aggitations had yielded no positive result.

Ondo State has recorded about 2000 covid-19 positive cases, 39 deaths and ranks among the highest top 10 in the country so far. The doctors who are at the forefront at combating this pandemic however regret and plead with the populace to bear with them as numerous of their members have contacted the virus, infected and even lost some of their family members and loved ones at home. The Government has nonetheless been incentive to the plights of the doctors citing poor welfare and working conditions, unavailability of adequate personal protective equipment and now collecting alerts of half salaries of November 2020 when already in February 2021, despite still being owed 4months salary arrears.

Amid pandemic

Duru9:
Amid pandemic

It's really a pandemic in the state at present, a sorry situation.

It is well

This is one of the reasons of that Dubai travel ban.....unseriousness in our health sector

The initial covid experience didn't teach us anything

what's going on with SW lately?

MsAllison:
what's going on with SW lately?

Ondo state in particular

Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu! Please do the needfull, the people are suffering and dying, can't access affordable health care as strike continues

It's almost 2 weeks now that health care services in Ondo State Government Hospitals have become inaccessible due to the strike action by the medical doctors. Solution has been elusive as no concrete plan is on ground by the Government for the industrial action to be called off. Patients are dying on a daily basis and medical tourisms out of the state to the nearest health care providers( F.M.C. Owo, OAUTHC Ile Ife) have been stressful and burdensome. Is this the dividends of democracy the people have bargained for? Why would the people be suffering this much at the expense of those elected into positions? How would a Governor in an oil producing state owe health workers and other civil servants 4 months salary arrears and still have the gut to resort to payment of half salaries. This is an height of selfishness, callousness in the midst rising costs; fuel, food stuffs, rents, school fees among others. Ondo state needs a Messiah, the land is suffering.