No fewer than 400 medical doctors
stormed the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in Plateau state armed with
a mock coffin in the early hours of Wednesday, protesting poor management of
the hospital.
After laying siege to the complex
of JUTH, the doctors also took to the streets in protest.
The Chief Medical Director of
JUTH, Prof Edmund Banwat told Punch that: ”It was learnt that some of their
grievances include an alleged disregard for the order of the National
Industrial Court stopping the sack of doctors in the institution.
“Others included the planned
implementation of no work, no pay policy, as against the memorandum of the
terms of settlement between NARD and the federal government as well as the
exclusion of the names of some staff from the nominal roll for October 2017.”
The report further said that of
the doctors were armed with placards carrying messages like: ‘Come and rescue
JUTH’, ‘Illegal sacking by illegal CMD’, ‘Prof Banwat, your tenure as CMD is
over’, ‘Rest in peace to the many souls killed by bad leadership’, ‘Obey Court
order’, ‘Stop illegal sacking of Resident Doctors’ and ‘Vacate office, your
tenure is over.’
Details later….
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