Resident doctors seek Makinde’s urgent intervention on state of LAUTECH’s teaching hospital

<h2></h2>, <h2>Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso says Gov. Seyi Makinde’s urgent intervention is needed to halt the hospital’s declining state.</h2>, <p>The association stated some of the hospital’s challenges as shortage of manpower, poor remuneration, brain drain, poor infrastructure and poor financial investment.</p>, <span>Oyo state Governor, Seyi Makinde. Twitter/@SeyiMakinde</span>, <p>The Association, through its President, Dr Sope Orugun, and General Secretary, Dr Nnara Stanley, said Gov. Makinde urgently needs to address the challenges bedeviling LAUTECH Teaching Hospital (LTH).</p>, <p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the association had on many occasions earlier sought the intervention of successive governments in the state over the hospital’s declining condition. The hospital has the capacity to train health workers of different cadres to meet the demands of the citizens of the state and beyond if properly administered.</p>, <p>The ARD LTH, in a statement by Orugun and Stanley, listed some of the hospital’s challenges as shortage of manpower, poor remuneration, brain drain, poor infrastructure and poor financial investment.</p>, <p>“This hospital’s founding fathers had committed huge funds to infrastructural development towards achieving their vision.</p>, <p>“But, sadly, successive governments have abandoned the investment with little or no financial commitment to the improvement of the hospital’s fortune,” it said.</p>, <p>The ARD said many categories of health workers had been lost to poor remuneration and excessive workload caused by the shortage of hands and the “JAPA” syndrome plaguing the nation. It pointed out that all federal and state government-owned tertiary hospitals in South Western Nigeria have started the payment of Medical Residency Training Fund (MRTF).</p>, <p>The doctors however said the only exception in their geo-political zone were those owned by Oyo and Ondo State Governments.</