LAUTECH sacks 255, redeploys 299

By Agboola Bayo

Ibadan

Management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso yesterday sacked 255 workers and redeployed 299 others.
This was contained in an internal memo issued by the hospital management, signed by one A.MA. Ajiferuke, on the major restructuring in the hospital.
The internal memorandum dated, 27th December, 2017, reads: “kindly find below the list of disengaged staff as directed by the Oyo state government and approved by the board at her meeting held on Thursday, 21st December, 2017.”
Sources said, of the 299 workers redeployed, 59 were members of the hospital’s chapter of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) with the association vowing to resist the action which it tagged illegal.
Chairman of LAUTECH ARD, Dr Sebastine Owoi, described the redeployment as “illegal transfer by the Oyo state government” saying the structure of the training of resident doctors does not give room for their transfer.
“Resident doctors cannot be transferred according to the structure of their training. If the hospital is not accredited for their training then they are allowed to go out as supernumerary in accredited institutions,” he said.
Owoi added, “But this is not what Oyo state government has done. Resident doctors are not medical officers that can be transferred. The battle has just begun. This anomaly will be resisted within all legal ambits.”

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