it was repoted in the Guardian that "for participating in a strike, which allegedly grounded medical activities in the state-owned hospitals in Delta State, a total of 15 doctors have been sacked by the state government.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Otumara, who spoke with reporters yesterday in Asaba, defended the sack, insisting that the action became necessary because allowing the doctors to go away with frivolous excuses all in the name of strike would send a wrong signal to other workers in the state.
He said that the state government which instructed the Hospital Management Board to recruit new doctors had since given appointment letters to the new doctors to replace those sacked and would resume soon.
Otumara, a medical doctor, lashed out at his colleagues, maintaining that doctors were not more important than other workers in the state and so would not be allowed to continue to hold the citizenry to ransom each time they felt slightly aggrieved.
The commissioner remarked that doctors were not supposed to engage in ceaseless agitations but to be compassionate and see human life as sacred, adding that the commercial inclination of some doctors had made them to neglect the aims of the medical profession.
Irked by what they described as the authoritarian attitude of Dr. Caroline Ajuya, the Permanent Secretary in the State Hospital management Board (HMB) who allegedly punished some doctors in Warri by asking them to pick papers for reporting late to duty and not signing the attendance register, the doctors under the umbrella of the Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners had petitioned Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, demanding that he re-assign the Permanent Secretary.
The association also accused Mrs. Ajuya of being overbearing in dealing with matters affecting its members and was angered by the tax policy of the government.
"He said that the state government which instructed the Hospital Management Board to recruit new doctors had since given appointment letters to the new doctors to replace those sacked and would resume soon.
Otumara, a medical doctor, lashed out at his colleagues, maintaining that doctors were not more important than other workers in the state and so would not be allowed to continue to hold the citizenry to ransom each time they felt slightly aggrieved.
The commissioner remarked that doctors were not supposed to engage in ceaseless agitations but to be compassionate and see human life as sacred, adding that the commercial inclination of some doctors had made them to neglect the aims of the medical profession.
Irked by what they described as the authoritarian attitude of Dr. Caroline Ajuya, the Permanent Secretary in the State Hospital management Board (HMB) who allegedly punished some doctors in Warri by asking them to pick papers for reporting late to duty and not signing the attendance register, the doctors under the umbrella of the Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners had petitioned Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, demanding that he re-assign the Permanent Secretary.
The association also accused Mrs. Ajuya of being overbearing in dealing with matters affecting its members and was angered by the tax policy of the government.
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