Members of the Association of Resident Doctors at University College Hospital in Ibadan have embarked on an indefinite strike, an official said on Monday. The association’s General Secretary, Dr Uthman Adedeji, told the newsman that the strike was due to a power outage in some of the hospital’s residential areas. Newsmen recalls that the Ibadan…
Indigenes of Ibadan, under the auspices of Legacy Stars of Ibadan, (LSI) have appealed to the federal government under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate to probe the current and previous management of the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan. LSI noted that…
The management of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, has debunked allegations that its premises were being used as armoury by the Yoruba Nation agitators. The hospital through its Public Relations Officer, Mrs Funmi Adetuyibi, in a statement in Ibadan on Tuesday, reiterated its commitment to health care delivery, adding that it would not engage in…
Sixteen days after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company disconnected University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State, for owing N495m, power has been restored to the health facility. Newsmen gathered that electricity was restored around 6.30 pm on Thursday. IBEDC disconnected the facility on March 19, the third time in less than two months, over what…
Resident doctors under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors, University College Hospital, Ibadan in Oyo State, on Thursday, began a three-day strike over alleged assault on one of their members by relatives of a patient in the hospital. The ARD President, John Oladapo, told newsmen in Ibadan, the state capital, that the doctors…
The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company has disconnected the power supply to the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Oyo State over N500m debt, The Newsmen has learnt. The Chief Medical Director of UCH, Dr Jesse Otegbayo, confirmed on Thursday that the hospital was disconnected by IBEDC but declined to disclose the cause of the disconnection. However, the…