UBTH CMD urges striking doctors to consider dying patients
Chief Medical Director, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Prof. Michael Ibadin has called on members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) to consider the alarming cases of patients under critical condition and call off the lingering two months old strike.
Ibadin condemned the actions of some medical doctors who take pleasure in embarking on incessant strikes, despite efforts by management to provide qualitative and sustainable healthcare service and meet the specific demands of the Association
Speaking with newsmen in Benin City, Edo state capital Professor Ibadin described the recent publication against the hospital management tagged “UBTH, a model in the Tertiary Hospital in the country” as the handiwork of his detractors and their sponsors targeted to malign and discredit him.
He equally decried the insensitivity of the doctors who shunned the negotiating table and refused to be pathetic to the plights of patients who suffered and died while the strike lasted
The Resident Doctors embarked on strike over Inadequate medical equipment in the hospital, reduction in the charges paid by patients, issues of allowances, amongst others while series of negotiations with management in the past deadlocked
On her part, the public relations officer, UBTH, Kehinde Ibitoye who also absolved the management of all allegations, accused the striking doctors of playing the script of their pay master, adding nothing the management has not done to resolved the crisis
“The management has done its best to pacify the resident doctors to return to work but they have not been able to come to an agreement with the doctors. The doctors who are adamant, claimed they are least paid in terms of salary. Government has a scale to pay federal government health workers and that is what the hospital management is using to pay them.
