Scores
of medical doctors in the employ of the Ogun State Government on Wednesday
stormed the governor’s office in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, and protested against
what they termed gross shortage of medical personnel and inadequate medical
facilities among others, in the state-owned hospitals.
The
medical doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Medical Association, Ogun
State, arrived the governor’s office around 9am chanting solidarity songs.
However,
the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, was not available, to receive
them.
They
were armed with placards with different inscriptions such as ‘Governor Amosun,
bring back our interns and NYSC health workers’ ‘Help us rebuild our health’
‘Doctors are dying of work overload’ among others.
The
state chairman of the association, Dr Abayomi Olajide, who later addressed
journalists and government officials, disclosed that there was shortage of
health workers in the local government areas and health institutions under the
state hospital management boards.
While
listing the cadres of health workers in short supply, he disclosed that there
was shortage of doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other allied workers.
Olajide
disclosed that the association had written four letters to the governor without
any response to any of them.
Though
the association commended the government’s fight against quackery and the
‘Araya scheme’, Olajide said it needed to do more in terms of employment of
more medical personnel and provide more medical equipment for effective health
care delivery.
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