The Ondo State Government has sacked resident doctors attached to the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, who had protested the non-payment of their salaries as at when due.
This was contained in an internal memo that was circulated to the doctors.
The memo gave the protesting doctors a notice till August 1, 2020 to evacuate the workforce.
The document was signed by Adeeyo Babatunde, who is the Director of Administration, representing the Chief Medical Director of the hospital.
It reads, “The management of University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital is by this release giving a month notice to all resident doctors directly employed by this hospital that the residency training program would be suspended as from August 1,
“Residents can seek continuation of their program in other institution where training program is ongoing.
“This decision is to allow the hospital focus on service delivery in order to combat the COVID-19 outbreak without distraction of agitations from resident doctors.
“This will also allow for proper implementation of the program when it commences.
“Residents may be considered for readmission when the program recommences in the teaching hospital.”
