The Association of Resident Doctors, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has urged the Head of Service of the Federation to absorb them into the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS).
The resident doctors made the appeal openly at LUTH premises, Idi-Araba, Lagos on Monday.
Speaking, Benjamin Olowojebutu, Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), said he was joining ARD LUTH chapter to appeal to the head of service and the Federal Ministry of Health to help absorb the doctors.
Olowojebutu said that the doctors had laboured and worked in LUTH for between nine to 12 months without being transferred to IPPIS.
He said that his support in the open appeal was to help tell the government to use their good offices to transfer these doctors to IPPIS.
He said that it was important for government to have a deliberate impactive position on keeping the workforce.
Also speaking, Dr Samuel Okerinde, President, ARD, LUTH said that some of its members had not been paid for over nine to 12 months.
Okerinde said that they desired to be migrated from where they were coming from to the LUTH platform.
He said that the development had negatively impacted on the mental health of doctors.
“Imagine as a doctor working in a very unconducive environment where we have one doctor doing about ten doctors’ work.
“Why? Because a lot of doctors have migrated, they have left the system and then we have people working and they are not being paid” he said.
The ARD chairman said that the doctors faced transportation challenges before getting to work and still attended to the large number of patients when they get to work.