ALL striking Osun State medical doctors who failed to resume for duty by last Saturday as directed by the state government have been sacked, the state's Head of Service, Segun Akinwusi, has said.

Akinwusi told The Guardian that all doctors who refused to report for work in compliance with an earlier statement he issued at the weekend should no longer consider themselves among the state's workers as those involved would be treated as having absconded from duty.

Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola reportedly gave the order that the medical doctors, under the platform of Osun State Association of Medical Doctors (OSSAMDO), who failed to report for duty should be told to leave so that they won't hold the state to ransom.

Oyinlola was said to have declared that no one should negotiate again with the doctors after he personally met them thrice and urged them to call off their strike which he considered as illegal.

Akinwusi said before the state government took the decision, it invited OSSAMDO leaders to a meeting where public service rules and a court order declaring their strike illegal were shown to them.

The state government, he said, had considered such doctors who refused to heed the warning to resume as having voluntarily "withdrawn from the services of the state public service and shall be treated under the existing public service rules which also regards the period of absence from duty as a period of break of service, which is not pensionable."

He reiterated the state government's stand that OSSAMDO "is not a recognised labour union or senior staff association under the existing labour laws in Nigeria and that the state government was not bound to negotiate with the association on any industrial matters.

But OSSAMDO Chairman, Dr. Niyi Oginni, insisted that his members would not resume work no matter the "intimidation and blackmail" used against his association.

However, contrary to some media reports that the strike has paralysed activities in the state hospitals, The Guardian saw that some medical workers were actually on duty attending to patients.

All medical consultants working with the state government continued to report for duty while some other general medical practitioners did not join their colleagues in the strike, it was gathered.

Statistics made available to reporters yesterday at the state's Health Ministry showed that while 14 out of a total of 22 doctors were as at yesterday working at the State Hospital, Asubiaro, Osogbo, at least three doctors in each of the other smaller hospitals in the six zones of the state continued to attend to patients.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Lasisi Olagunju, said government had ensured that the strike by "a few doctors" did not affect health care delivery in the state-owned hospitals.

According to the statement, "it is difficult for the strike to paralyse the hospitals because all six zonal hospitals in the state are headed by consultants who are being assisted by house officers, other doctors and nurses."

The government, he said, had in the last three months employed 16 fresh doctors and over 60 nurses among a total of 170 people employed in the health sector while no fewer than three doctors have had to leave the state's employment in the last two years.

The superiority rivalry between the consultants and the general medical practitioners is believed to be one of the reasons behind the current strike action, Olagunju claimed.

source: http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article07/270707

is this suppose to be a medical version of the Unilorin rule?

Nice. The next step is to privatize these hospitals by conducting an open auction. Progress continua!!

sacking medical personel when they should be recruiting more. I wonder when this sort of bullying will stop in Nigeria.

Its no bullying. These doctors have thrown away medical ethics;its all about increase in wages. Imagine a doctor(life savers) going on strike?

what happened to dialogue (on both sides)
I beg the nigerian wahala tire me jare

sacking medical personnel when they should be recruiting more.

If the doctors don't want to work, why shouldn't they be sacked?
If you own a business, will you continue to pay the salary of a striking employee?

Let them continue their strike indefinitely, since that's what they want.
Their salaries will be used to hire new doctors who want to save lives.

YEAH DIALOGUE.

D TRUTH IS DAT THOSE GUYS GOT FAMILIES TOO

"Their salaries will be used to hire new doctors who want to save lives"

CONSIDER THE FACT THAT MEDICINE IS NOT EASY 2 STUDY. IN FACT, IF U ASK MOST MEDICAL STUDENTS, THEY'LL TELL U THEY REGRETTED STUDYING MEDIC. IN A NATION WHERE FACIOLITIES ARE UNAVAILABE, ONE WONDERS WHERE SEUN WANTS THEM 2 EMPLOY OTHER PPLE WITH ALL D EXPORTATION OF OUR PERSONNEL 2 4REIGN LANDS?

I wonder who the governor of Osun state is?




Yes a certain Oyinlola, in a previous life a military governor. He must thnk he is still running a military operation
Bloody reactionary

Replace them with new doctors. Hmm which kain idea be that one. Like say we dey mint doctors like Cuba

i never liked d guy

why wont they go on strike when they see their politician collegues looting state tresuries and escaping in the guise of plea bargain. nonsense

Seun:

If the doctors don't want to work, why shouldn't they be sacked?
If you own a business, will you continue to pay the salary of a striking employee?

Let them continue their strike indefinitely, since that's what they want.
Their salaries will be used to hire new doctors who want to save lives.

That's great; lose their experience and hire inexperienced ones.

When those ones also start demanding recognition, sack them and employ more inexperienced doctors. Seun has got it all perfectly worked out.

It doesn't matter to those government officials anyway. The sacked doctors will be better welcomed in Europe or America and when the governemt officials fall ill, they run to Europe or America to be treated by the doctors who are now being better treated by those countries.

It's a great scenario, isn't it?

Oyinlola the governor of Osun State is a failure. There are no drugs in the hospitals and no pipe-borne water in most parts of Oshogbo, the state capital.