Management of Benue State University
Teaching Hospital says it issued sack
letter on only three, not 30 doctors, as
the Association of Resident Doctors have
claimed.
The association at the hospital has
threatened to go on strike if the
hospital doesn’t withdraw the letters at
the end of an ultimatum, claiming the
hospital is attempting to impose a
six-year window for residency training
on resident doctors instead of the eight
years allowed.
Deputy Director, Head of Public
Relations at BSUTH, Cephas Hough, issued
a statement saying, “We wish to inform
that, whereas, the Association alleged
that 30 of their members have been
‘sacked’ by the Management of the
hospital, we wish to point out that only
three resident doctors were terminated
upon service of month notice in
compliance with directives of the
Management Board of the hospital.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to
make it clear that residency is a time
bound training program. The Residency
Training Policy of the Benue State
University Teaching Hospital, requires
resident doctors to pass all prescribed
examinations within a maximum period of
6 years.
“Consequently, all resident doctors
whose appointments with the hospital
have been terminated have exceeded the
prescribed period for the programme,”
the statement reads in part.
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