Medical doctors under the auspices of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso chapter (MDCAN), have appealed to the Oyo State government to stop brain drain in the state health sector.
The doctors said that if there was no immediate intervention from the state government, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, would go into extinction.
In a statement signed by the chapterโs chairman, Dr. A. Salawu, the doctors said it has become necessary to draw the attention of the state government and the people of the state to the situation in the hospital.
Salawu stated that the hospital is nothing to write home about due to the non-completion of many projects and non supply of some state of the art equipment to the health facility.
โThe question is what happens to the collective wealth of N24 billion expended by the previous administration? In the six years of existence of LTH, despite the below average support of government, LTH can boast of dedicated staff who have made the hospital excel.
โHowever, despite this exceptional dedication, commitment and financial sacrifice by staff and some Oyo State indigenes who have come to our aid to complete some abandoned projects in the hospital, our governor is yet to visit the hospital and have an on-the-spot assessment.
โThe government of Oyo State is now planning to close down the hospital and has presently cut subvention to the hospital in January 2016. Also, all categories of workers have been subjected to between 28% and 50% salary till date and the last salary paid was August, 2017 as at 30th November, 2017.
โThe Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, LTH is now crying out to the people of Oyo State, elder statesmen, political leaders, religious leaders, royal fathers, men and women to lend a voice and appeal to Mr. Governor to jettison this plan that would set Oyo State 10 years back apart from allowing a huge investment go down the drain which would be difficult to recover. Oyo State must continue to be the pace setter state,โ claimed the doctors.
