The Joint Action Front (JAF) a pro-labour welfare organization, has described the action of the Lagos State Government in the sacking of 788 doctors in its employ as ‘a grave violation of labour laws and international conventions’, citing the 661, 662 and 663 mandates of the International Labour Organization (ILO) laws.
The Joint Action Front (JAF) a pro-labour welfare organization, has described the action of the Lagos State Government in the sacking of 788 doctors in its employ as ‘a grave violation of labour laws and international conventions’, citing the 661, 662 and 663 mandates of the International Labour Organization (ILO) laws.
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In a press statement signed by its secretary, Abiodun Aremu, today, the group heaped responsibility for the casualties in the state’s hospitals on the Raji Fashola’s Administration in Lagos State for his refusal to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary (CONMESS), which is the approved basic minimum wage for all the doctors across the federation.
On Monday, the Lagos State Government, through its Head of Service, Adesegun Ogunlewe, announced that it had sacked 788 doctors, 316 of whom were working with the Lagos State Teaching Hospital and another 472 in other hospitals in the state. It also announced that it had employed 373 new doctors, while advertisements have been placed inviting more applicants to fill the remaining positions of the sacked doctors.
Also reacting to this development, the President of the Resident Doctors, Lagos State Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Dr. Saheed Babajide, said in a phone conversation that the Lagos State Government was only on a mission to
increase the rate of casualties in the state by employing inexperienced graduates to handle critical health issues while being insincere with the agreement it had signed with the employed doctors on the CONMESS.
The doctors commenced their indefinite strike on 16th of April, 2012, following the refusal of the Raji Fashola administration to fulfill its part of the CONMESS agreement with them.
In a recent conference in Lagos, JAF had said that the Lagos State Government was on an anti-human mission to silence all groups from challenging its move to turn government affairs into a private business for himself and those whose interest it is serving, citing the examples of the recent Lagos State University, crisis and the use of party thugs to confront and battle with those challenging the imposition of the unpopular Toll on Lekki residents in the State.
“They have now turned Lagos State University into a private school”, some members of the group said during the last conference by JAF.
Joint Action Front supported the striking Lagos Doctors and had called a conference recently to that effect.
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