The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Osun state chapter on Thursday staged a protest to demand the stoppage of payment
of half salaries to doctors.
The protesting doctors marched from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
(LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital to Olaiya and some other major streets in the state capital.
While protesting, the doctors said that there are no drugs nor equipment in state-
government owned hospitals despite the claims of the state that it had spent N10 billion to improve the sector.
Dr Tokunbo Olajumoke, the state chairman of the NMA, who addressed newsmen during the protest blamed the lack of
equipment and drugs for the death of former Governor of the state, Senator Isiaka
Adeleke.
He said Adeleke was not taken to the government hospital very close to his residence because the hospital lacked drugs and equipment to handle emergency cases.
Olajumoke also said the doctors might consider the option of a strike if the protest
fails to achieve the desired result.
He said doctors are being paid only half their salary, the government deducts the
taxes in full.
