The hospital’s
management coerced them into writing letters of apology after SaharaReporters
exposed the injustice and victimisation of the affected nurses. The latest
twist is however, another way the hospital’s management intends to put fear
into the affected nurses to prevent them from demanding their rights while
still in the employ of the state government.
Following several
stories by SaharaReporters on the unjust sacking of six nurses attached to the
University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, the state
government has now told the affected persons to deny the reports by the online
news publication before being reinstated into service.
In a letter signed
by Adeeyo Babatunde, Director of Administration for the Chief Medical Director,
Dr Oluwole Ige, and seen by SaharaReporters, the management of the hospital
gave a number of other stringent conditions to five of the affected individuals
before they are to be reinstated.
The letter reads,
“The management of the teaching hospital has considered your letter of apology
on the matter and has approved your re-absorption into the services of the
teaching hospital on the following
conditions:
“That you submit two
letters from two guarantors that are not less than the grade of a director in
the state public service.
“That you submit a
letter that you would be of a good conduct while in the service of the teaching
hospital.
“That you should
show evidence of your rebuttal of the malicious publications currently
circulating in an online news media.
“Please note that
the effective date of your re-absorption shall be the date you resume duty in
your department and the period of your absence will be treated as leave without
pay.
“By this letter, you
are hereby instructed to report back to your department after complying with
the above stated conditions.”
Recall that after
forcefully removing them from service for protesting the non-payment of their
salaries, the hospital’s management also coerced them into writing letters of
apology after SaharaReporters exposed the injustice and victimisation of the
affected nurses.
The latest twist is
however, another way the hospital’s management intends to put fear into the
affected nurses to prevent them from demanding their rights while still in the
employ of the state government.
A source on Tuesday
confirmed to SaharaReporters that the nurses were summoned to the office of the
CMD a few days ago where the letters containing the new conditions were listed.
“Although, I cannot
really state the outcome of the meeting between the sacked nurses and the
management last week, but I am sure it was because of the story over their
(affected nurses) sack by the hospital. The management was not really happy
about it especially the bashing from the public.
“Out of the six
nurses that were sacked by the management, the hospital still refused to
reinstate one of the guys among identified as Peace.
“He is one of the
best hands in his department at the hospital but he is being victimised to
leading others to demand for their rights.
“The hospital’s
management is committing this evil despite an order from Governor Rotimi
Akeredolu for the nurses to be unconditionally reinstated.”
One of the affected
nurses, who spoke with our correspondent, said he has rejected the conditions
attached to the reinstatement.
He said, “They gave
five of us the letters and left one person out but as for me, I see those
conditions as a way to further punish us for demanding for our rights.”
CMD of the hospital,
Dr Ige, did not respond to calls or text messages sent to him when contacted by
SaharaReporters to react to the issue.
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