A 15 day ultimatum has been issued by Nurses and midwives at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, to the hospital management over alleged neglect of their welfare and poor working conditions.
The workers, under the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, LAUTECH Teaching Hospital chapter, accused management of sidelining them whenever new benefits were approved for health workers in Oyo State.
In a statement signed by the Unit Chairman, Ojewumi Olutayo, and the Secretary, Adedokun Foluwake, the nurses lamented that while their counterparts in other state-owned facilities have begun receiving the new national minimum wage, LAUTECH workers have been left out.
They also cited delayed payment of COVID-19 allowances and hazard allowances, stressing that the neglect had pushed them into economic hardship and low morale.
They warned that any strike action would severely disrupt healthcare delivery at the hospital, which serves as the only state-owned tertiary institution and referral centre for Oyo State and parts of Osun and Kwara.
The association therefore called on Governor Seyi Makinde to personally intervene and end what they described as a cycle of exclusion.