UCH Resident Doctors call off two months old strike

The Association of resident doctors (ARD) in the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, has suspended their two months old strike today, Tuesday.
The resident doctors had embarked on an indefinite strike since the first of October over the anomalies in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) recently introduced by the federal government.
The President of the UCH ARD, Dr Babatunde Babasanya who disclosed this to reporters yesterday in Ibadan, stated that they are suspending it in order to honour different scholars, the UCH authorities, well meaning Nigerians, among others that have been appealing to the association to suspend the strike and give room for negotiation with the government.

“It is so sad that the IPPS scheme has caused most of our members to loose part of their august, september salaries, some were paid as cooks, security men, cleaners and the likes, while others did not even collect any salary for these months. We were even shock that when our november salary was paid, the shortfalls has not been corrected. We want them to regularise the august, september, along with december salaries in other for us not to commence our strike again.

” We are not asking the government for an excess money, this is our salary which we have worked for, we cannot cope with this financial hardship that has befallen us again. The government has blatantly refuse to yield to our request but we are suspending it for peace to reign. The federal government has been short changing UCH authorities N100 million every month since January and this has been hampering the progress of this institution” he said.

According to Babasanya, rising up from a six hours congress with our members, our members decided to suspend this strike for a only this month to see if the federal government will pay all our outstanding salaries.
He appealed to the federal government to address all the discrepancies associated with their august and september salaries, adding that their december salary should also be normalize.