Obaseki
Prof. Darlington Obaseki is the Chief Medical Director of University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). Obaseki in this interview with CHUKWUMA MUANYA, shares the secret of how to achieve industrial harmony in healthcare sector.
We were told about a 1000 doctors have left the country in the past few months and government hospitals like yours are currently having problems with recruitment. How do you ensure that these patients get the best of services with less number of doctors?
The country does not know what we are facing. Right now, the health system in Nigeria is nearly collapsing if we don’t tackle this issue of doctors’ emigration frontally. We are training doctors for other health care systems elsewhere in the world. The government of Nigeria spends lots of money to train me to where I am today and I went abroad for training. I never felt inferior to my colleagues; in fact they kept asking me if I trained in Europe and I would say ‘No, I trained in Nigeria.
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The Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital, Ibadan, has embarked on an indefinite strike over unpaid four months salaries of some members.
Dr Temitope Hussein, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria, on Saturday in Ibadan, said the strike was to protest non-payment of January, February, March, and April salaries of some members of the association.
Hussein said other issues also included the non-enrolment of some members into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, which was affecting the payment of their emoluments.
NAN recalls that the national body of the association, the National Association of Resident Doctors had in April suspended its indefinite strike after ten days.
Dr Temitope Hussein, an official of the association, said other issues also included the non-enrolment of some members into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, (IPPIS), which was affecting payment of their emoluments.
The national body of the association, National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), had in April suspended its indefinite strike after ten days.
NARD had cited “new agreement reached with the Federal Government” as the reason for suspending the strike.
The doctors had demanded, amongst other things, payment of all salary arrears and review of the current hazard allowance to 50 per cent of consolidated basic salaries for all health workers. (NAN)
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University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, has embarked on an indefinite strike over unpaid four months salaries of some members.
Dr Temitope Hussein, who spoke with NAN, on Saturday in Ibadan, said the strike was to protest non-payment of January, February, March, and April salaries of some members of the association.
Hussein said other issues also included the non-enrolment of some members into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, (IPPIS), which was affecting payment of their emoluments.