By Kayode Babatuyi
Medical doctors under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti have put their services on indefinitely.
The development according to the president of the association Dr Olaniyi Olaoye is due to the irregularities in the payment of their salaries attributed to reduction in the monthly subvention to the hospital by government.
Dr Olaoye explained that since 2018, Resident Doctors have been subjected to hardship due to the payment of only their net salary as against the gross.
He said the non remittance of various deductions such as cooperative and union dues to appropriate quarters had hindered them from having access to loan and necessary benefits.
Dr Olaoye said while the doctors were still trying to endure the pain of amputated salary, the monthly subvention to the hospital was cut again perhaps due to economic situation which made the management unable to pay May and June 2021 Salaries.
The president affirmed that the association after three congresses took the decision to allow their members stay at home pending the time they would have resources to transport themselves to work.
Efforts to speak with the commissioner for Health in Ekiti State Dr. Oyebanji Filani was unsuccessful as he was said to be out of office for official assignment while his telephone line was not reachable.
