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...For a better society... Friday, September 17 2004 Vol 17 No.30 News Editorial Politics Opinion Foreign News Fashion Metro Sports Features Columnists View from America Business Money/Market Maritime Aviation Motoring Rail/Road NAUTH workers grumble again FELIX UKA, Awka ANOTHER strike is looming at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) over the alleged discriminatory payment of harmonised salary increase. This is coming shortly after three-months strike by resident doctors in the hospital. The resident doctors, numbering about 80, under the umbrella of Resident Doctors Association (RDA) are protesting alleged discriminatory payment of the 22 per cent increase of salary of doctors which followed the harmonised salary increase. President of the RDA, NAUTH chapter Dr. Jude Mgbemena, who spoke with Daily Champion said they were also protesting what he called high-handedness of the acting Chief Medical Director of the hospital Dr. Robinson Ofiaeli in the management of the hospital. The RDA boss explained that CMD, Ofiaeli recently invited police who arrested him while he was at children’s ward and that the policemen shot into the air to scare patients. Mgbemena further claimed that the child (the patient) died a few hours after he (Mgbemena) was whisked away to Awka by the State Security Service (SSS) over alleged plot to cause breakdown of law in NAUTH. The doctors showed documents allegedly given to new doctors recruited by the hospital where they are made to sign undertakings that they would not join the RDA. When contacted, the CMD, Dr. Ofiaeli dismissed all the allegations, saying that the problem of the hospital was poor attitude to work. He said the management only recruited 70 new house officers who going for internship of which they are not resident doctors. Ofiaeli argued that since they are not resident doctors, they would not be part of the RDA. He said the claim by Mgbemena that he was handing the dead patient was untrue. The CMD said they had been paying the 22 per cent increase. On the allegation that he withheld the payment of some of the resident doctors, he said "We are not owing them, their stay have ended on May 21, 2004. So we paid them for the specified 12 calendar months they should stay here. "It is mischieve for someone to say that I am running here with iron hand, management won’t sit down and watch indiscipline", he stated, adding that the hospital has N100 million approved for capital projects. � 2004 @ Champion Newspapers Limited (All Right Reserved). Powered By dnetsystems.net dnet�

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