Doctors threaten to shut down LUTH over unpaid salaries

Striking doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) have threatened to shut the down activities, if the management fails to pay them their four months salaries.

The doctors, who embarked on an indefinite strike action in November, expressed concern at the inaction of the management.

President, Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), LUTH), Dr. Olawale Oba, told The Guardian that the hospital has not given the doctors any concrete information about the delay in their salaries.

He said going by the government’s “No work no pay” strategy, the doctors deserve their pay for working assiduously to save the lives of patients, in which most of the doctors have lost their lives, due to hunger and lack of money to take care of their health.

He declared that doctors would not call off the strike until those salaries are paid, because workers have already exhausted what they had saved, even as some have borrowed extra.

The Guardian, December 12, 2018

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