Doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association in Osun State on Thursday staged a public protest to press home their demand for stoppage of payment of half salaries to doctors by the state government.
Some of
the protesting doctors, who were dressed in lab coats and branded shirts
marched from the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo to Olaiya and some of the
major streets in the state capital.
Singing
anti-government songs as they marched through the streets, the doctors also
said that there were no drugs nor equipment in state government owned hospitals
despite the claims of the state that it had spent N10 billion to improve the
sector.
The
Chairman of the NMA in the state, Dr. Tokunbo Olajumoke, who addressed
journalists during the protest blamed the lack of equipment and drugs for the
death of former Governor Isiaka Adeleke on April 23.
Olajumoke
said Adeleke was not taken to the government hospital very close to his
residence because he knew the hospital lacked drugs and equipment to handle
emergency cases.
He
said the doctors might consider the option of a strike if the protest failed to
achieve the desired result.
The
NMA chairman said despite that the state government was paying doctors half
salaries, the government was deducting full tax from their “amputated
salaries.”
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