Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke
The Management of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, UNIOSUNTH has reacted to the allegation that it sent some patients out of the hospital on Monday night.
The hospital management said it took the decision due to the ongoing Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals strike.
Osun Defender reports that the family of one of the affected patients in the hospital raised the alarm in a WhatsApp message on Tuesday morning that the hospital management around 8:00 p.m. on Monday ordered their patients to leave the hospital immediately.
He wrote, “Gov ADELEKE must hear this. UNIOSUN TEACHING HOSPITAL workers embarked on strike since morning and they never informed the patients until 8 p.m. tonight and ordered all patients to leave the hospital immediately including pregnant women who were about to deliver.
“Relatives and their patients are left stranded especially those from outside Osogbo. The government should come to people’s aid. You can fact-check me. This action is not only barbaric but pure wickedness on the part of the striking workers.
“Why the midnight? It is unfair. A lot of patients don’t know where to go.”
Responding in a WhatsApp message sent to Osun Defender, the hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Wale Ajibolu, said the management met with the workers to persuade them to suspend the ongoing Johesu strike, adding that the engagement took till late evening.
He noted that the management had no choice but to do the needful once it realised that the union wouldn’t suspend the strike.
“The management met the union till late evening to suspend the ongoing Johesu strike.
“They let them see reasons that we are hospital and our own case is peculiar. But they refused,and the management had to do the needful,” he wrote.
Osun Defender
