UITH staff kick against privatisation of diagnostic section
Members of the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) chapter yesterday protested against alleged plans by the hospital’s management to privatise and commercialise services at the diagnostic section of the hospital. The protesting workers who began a three-day sit-down strike to force the management to rescind its decision […]
Members of the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) chapter yesterday protested against alleged plans by the hospital’s management to privatise and commercialise services at the diagnostic section of the hospital.
The protesting workers who began a three-day sit-down strike to force the management to rescind its decision carried placards with various inscriptions and also alleged that the management had contracted the services of the radio diagnostic section to a private consultant who is coming with his own equipment and workforce.
Addressing the workers, the Chairman of NUAHP, Comrade Olatunde Oluwawumi, said members would be in the office without attending to any patient and warned that they would not cooperate with the consultant being brought in because the break-down of facilities at the section was due to negligence by management.