The official also speaks about the situation at the hospital and why resident doctors went on strike.
at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Folorunsho Bodunwa, talks about the recent strike embarked upon by the doctors, their grievances with the hospital management, and the heavy workload on the resident doctors. Excerpts.Folorunsho Bodunwa: The grievances of the resident doctors with the management board are in two parts: one, is the current state we are right now. The fact that there is a dearth of resident doctors in the hospital, we are understaffed.
PT: So you are saying that in the last five years, there has been only one recruitment exercise despite the fact that three batches have exited the system?PT: You are essentially saying that one of the biggest psychiatric hospitals in Nigeria does not have an employment policy that works?Bodunwa: Yes, that’s the exact problem. It is not a problem that is just starting. No policy that says that once a set is exiting the system, another should be inaugurated into the system.
This is not the first time. Sometimes, we will be on the issue of requesting for medical doctors for over a year before we will see, and I need to point out that there is a tradition that before every major employment takes place, there must be strike actions and it’s been going on for years. We were told that before we came in in that 2014, it was as a result of strike action.
Bodunwa: That is what we are doing as much as we can. Telling it to the media. We don’t have direct access to Abuja, we are resident doctors and that really should not be our business so we are using the media to inform the presidency that this is what is happening. The truth is, we didn’t just wake up one morning to go on strike, we have been giving ultimatums.
Bodunwa: Well, as I said earlier, the residency programme is a training programme. You are writing exams, you are both schooling and working. Don’t forget that the aim of the programme is to become a consultant eventually. If you do not pass your exams within your limited amount of time, you are thrown away and you have to go and look for what to do if you do not become a consultant at the end of the day. So you have to read, try to pass your exams, go for your update courses within this time.
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