Minimum Wage: LAUTECH Hospital Nurses, Midwives Begin Strike

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State subdivision of National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNW) has declared indefinite onslaught enactment implicit non-implementation of the caller National Minimum Wage arsenic good arsenic different pending payment issues.

The Association’s LAUTECH Chairman, Ojewumi Olutayo, and Secretary, Adedokun Foluwake, disclosed this successful Ibadan, the authorities capital, connected Saturday.

According to the officials, the onslaught followed the expiration of a 15-day ultimatum issued to the absorption of the hospital.

They explained that the onslaught began, connected Friday, owed to the lack of meaningful steps to code the demands of its members contempt repeated engagements and reminders.

The connection said workers person suffered systemic neglect, with their payment consistently overlooked compared to counterparts successful different state-owned wellness institutions successful the authorities who already bask improved packages.

“LAUTECH Teaching Hospital workers person suffered systemic neglect, with their payment consistently overlooked compared to counterparts successful different state-owned wellness institutions successful the authorities who already bask improved packages,” the relation said.

It listed immoderate of the cardinal demands to see contiguous implementation of the caller National Minimum Wage and its consequential adjustments with effect from January 2025.

Others see outgo of promotion arrears from 2018 to 2024, recruitment of further nurses to code terrible unit shortages, renovation and due furnishing of nurses’ stations and restrooms to amended moving conditions.

The national stressed that the prolonged hold successful gathering these obligations has created fiscal strain, debased morale, and attrition of skilled unit successful the hospital.

The relation further noted that the teaching hospital, being the lone state-owned tertiary wellness instauration successful the state, plays a captious relation arsenic a referral centre for patients from Oyo, Osun, Kwara, and neighbouring communities.

The relation warned that the onslaught could severely disrupt services for thousands of patients, including large women, children, mishap victims, and exigency cases.

The national called connected Governor Seyi Makinde to urgently wade into their demands to guarantee fairness and equity successful unit welfare, noting that concern harmony was cardinal to sustaining prime healthcare transportation successful the state.

While reaffirming their committedness to nonrecreational excellence and prime care, the nurses and midwives maintained that the onslaught would proceed until their demands were afloat met.