Lagos Doctors Protest Over Non-Payment Of Salaries And Victimization

Posted by Iyinoluwa on Sat 29th Nov, 2014 - tori.ng

Lagos doctors under the umbrella of the Medical Guild staged a protest on Friday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, over the non-payment of their August and September salaries. They also protested against the non-employment of resident doctors by the hospital management, as well as the casualisation and victimization of doctors under the employ of the state government.

Doctors protesting

Lagos doctors under the umbrella of the Medical Guild staged a protest on Friday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, over the non-payment of their August and September salaries.

The doctors also protested against the non-employment of resident doctors by the hospital management, as well as the casualisation and victimisation of doctors under the employ of the state government.

According to the Chairman of the Medical Guild Dr. Biyi Kufo, the aim of the protest is to draw public attention to the various acts of victimazation against the doctors who work for the Lagos State Government. Dr. Kufo appealed to the state government to accede to the demands of the doctors in order to prevent another round of strike in the state.

He said, “We want the government to pay those withheld salaries of August and September 2014, to stop employing doctors as casual workers which they have been doing since 2012. These doctors on contract employment have no career path, they can be dismissed at the slightest notice and we want them to resume training of specialists at LASUTH."

“They are no longer employing doctors for specialist training and given a few years, there will no longer be specialists to render services to Lagosians. The government continues to victimise doctors and we want them to stop”, he said.