LAUTECH hospital workers urge Osun, Oyo to set up board

Workers of the Ladoke Akintola University
Teaching Hospital in Osogbo, the Osun State
capital, under the aegis of the Joint Health
Professionals (JHP), have urged the
governments of Osun and Oyo states to
inaugurate a governing board for the hospital.
They said the inauguration of a board would
address workers’ welfare and inprove the
hospital.
JHP Chairman Adetunji Adeyeye told reporters
yesterday that the Oyo State government
“failed to contribute its quota to the hospital”.
He said the workers’ August salary, which was
the turn of Oyo State to pay, is yet to be paid.
Adeyeye said: “Of all teaching hospitals,
LAUTECH is the only one without a pension
scheme. We do not even know where our fate
lies when we retire. The two owner states
should urgently constitute a governing board
for the hospital to forestall further
complication in the system. The board must
include our members, who are qualified
professionals, from both states.”
The workers called for the employment of
more professionals in the hospital to boost
service delivery, saying there are more
administrative workers than medical workers in
the hospital.