By Asma’u Ahmad
The Chief Medical Director of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Profesor Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, has warned striking resident doctors in the hospital to return to work or lose their pay.
Professor Olatinwo who gave the warning in Ilorin while speaking with newsmen, urged the doctors to return to work as the management of UITH would not hesitate to enforce the Civil Service Rule of “No Work, No Pay.”
“Unless we get a counter-directive from the Federal Government, who own the UITH, members of National Association of Residents Doctors (NARD) shunning job may not be paid,” he warned.
Olatinwo, however, expressed optimism that the doctors would heed his call and return to work.
Reacting to the CMD’s call for call off of the strike, UITH NARD President, Dr. Ade Faponle, urged the hospital management to pay their allowances.
“If there is economic recession, it should not be the UITH doctors alone who should bear the brunt to the exclusion of other health workers of the same status,” he said.
