Fresh crisis looms in JUTH
as resident doctors accuse CMD of ignoring court order
Kingsley Chukwuka, Jos
Fresh crisis appears to be looming at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) as resident doctors have accused its Chief Medical Director (CMD), Professor Edmund Banwat, of ignoring the court order asking him to stop the sacking doctors in the health institution
It would be recalled that the National Industrial sitting in Abuja had last month ordered the JUTH CMD to desist from sacking Resident Doctors at the hospital.
The National Industrial Court presided over by Justice Waziri Abali also ordered the Chief Medical Director and the hospital to fully comply with the Circular issued by the Federal Ministry of Health regarding the Residency Training Programme of the doctors.
Among the doctors already sacked unjustly by the JUTH CMD, according to the court papers filed by Gyang Zi and Knights Firms include ten doctors, comprising four Surgeons, four Gynecologists and two doctors from the Department of Medicine
Instead of adhering to the court order stopping further sack of the doctors, President of Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Paul Agbo told journalists in Jos yesterday that the CMD had continued to sack his members by withholding the salaries of the affected doctors and preventing them from continuing with their postings.
“The CMD has continued to ignore the court order mandating him to stop further sack of the resident doctors: this he has done by withholding the salaries of the affected doctors and preventing them from continuing with their posting.
“Nobody is above the law. Everybody occupying any position in this country should make our democracy work by abiding with the pronouncements of the courts”.
He further lamented that both the patients and the workers in the hospital had suffered enough due to frequent disruptions occasioned by poor handling of issues by the hospital management under the leadership of Professor Banwat while calling on the critical stakeholders and well meaning Nigerians to call the CMD to order before he plunges the health institution into another round of crisis.
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