Staff of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, will, from Tuesday, April 2, work between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily until power is restored in the hospital.<\/p>\n
Oludayo Olabampe, chairman of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), the umbrella body of hospital unions, announced this in an interview on Tuesday in Ibadan.<\/p>\n
Mr Olabampe, therefore, said that the college hospital had been without electricity since March 19 and could not continue like that.<\/p>\n
The chairman explained that \u201cworkers would now work from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. only because it is dangerous and risky to attend to patients in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Olabampe added, \u201cWe held a meeting with the management this morning but the issue is that there is no electricity. So, from today, Tuesday, April 2, we will work until 4:00 p.m. we are not attending to any patient after 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis means that we won\u2019t admit patients because the nurses that will take care of them will not be available after 4:00 p.m., and you don\u2019t expect patients to be on their own from 4:00 p.m. till 8:00 a.m. the following day.\u201d<\/p>\n
He noted that \u201cif patients need blood tests, the lab will not work\u201d and \u201cif they need radiography, the radiographers will not work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dieticians in charge of their food, too, will not work after 4:00 p.m. We also gave management another 14-day ultimatum, which started counting from March 27, and if, after 14 days, power is not restored, we will embark on a seven-day warning strike,\u201d said the union leader.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the move, the UCH chief medical director, Jesse Otegbayo, said the union did not officially write the management before taking such a decision.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cI have not heard about that. If they are going to do that, they should write to management officially, and then the management will respond.<\/p>\n
There are rules that govern government service. You can\u2019t just decide what hours you work and expect to be paid full-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staff of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, will, from Tuesday, April 2, work between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily until power is restored in the hospital. Oludayo Olabampe, chairman of the Joint Action Committee (JAC), the umbrella body of hospital unions, announced this in an interview on Tuesday in Ibadan. Mr Olabampe, therefore, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":25588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25590,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587\/revisions\/25590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}